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Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington (19 January 1877 – 23 April 1916) was a British politician. Biography. Hicks-Beach was the eldest son of former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, and his wife Lady Lucy Catherine Fortescue.
Michael Edward Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, PC, DL (23 October 1837 – 30 April 1916), known as Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt, from 1854 to 1906 and subsequently as The Viscount St Aldwyn to 1915, was a British Conservative politician.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach (at 476) and Lady Lucy Hicks-Beach (at 477) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball. Notes and Questions [edit | edit source] Michael Hugh Hicks-Beach, Viscount Quenington died in action in Egypt in World War I. Footnotes [edit | edit source]
The RGH returned to Egypt, with Hicks-Beach (also known as Viscount Quenington since his father’s promotion to an earldom) as their adjutant. On 23 April 1916, Hicks-Beach was involved in severe fighting at Katia, thirty miles from the Suez canal, where German and Turkish troops (some mounted on camels) made a surprise attack.
It was created in 1915 for the prominent Conservative politician Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Viscount St Aldwyn, known from 1854 to 1907 as Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 9th Baronet, of Beverston. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1885 to 1886 and again from 1895 to 1902.
From 1915, Michael Hugh held the courtesy title of Viscount Quenington, as a subsidiary title held by his father. Michael Hugh was educated at Eton and came up to Christ Church in 1895. From 1906 until his death, he was Conservative MP for Tewkesbury, and a board member of Lloyds Bank.
The Hicks Beach family was founded in 1790 when Michael Hicks took the additional surname of Beach under a condition of the will of his father-in-law William Beach of Netheravon...
