Notes
- 1 2 3 Burke's Peerage , vol. 3 (2003), p. 3466
- 1 2 Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (2019), p. 4238
Michael Henry Hicks Beach, 3rd Earl St Aldwyn (born 7 February 1950) is a British peer, baronet, and businessman. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1992 to 1999.
The eldest of the three sons of Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn, and his wife Diana Mary Christian Mills, he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He succeeded his father as Earl St Aldwyn and Viscount Quenington in 1992 and is also 11th Baronet, of Beverstone Castle, in the baronetage of England, a title created for his ancestor Sir William Hicks in 1619. [1] Since 1994 he has been managing director of International Fund Marketing (UK) Ltd. [2]
In 1982, he married firstly Gilda Maria, daughter of João Adolfo Pinto da Cunha Saavedra, of Rio de Janeiro. In 2005 he married secondly Mrs Louise Wigan, née Mostyn. [2] With his first wife he has two daughters [1]
The heir presumptive to the peerages is St Aldwyn’s younger brother David Seymour Hicks-Beach (born 1955), who was Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II between 1969 and 1972 and is now the owner of The Bones Dogalogue, a mail order firm for dogs. In 1993 he married Katrina Louise Susannah Henriques and has a daughter and a son. [1]
James George Alexander Bannerman Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife was a British landowner, farmer and peer. He was the grandson of Louise, Princess Royal, a daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. As a female-line great-grandson of a British sovereign, he did not carry out royal or official duties or receive any funds from the Civil List. He was the second cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, and King Harald V of Norway. Through his maternal grandfather, he was also a descendant of William IV and Dorothea Jordan.
Michael Edward Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn,, 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. Known as "Black Michael", he notably served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1885 to 1886 and again from 1895 to 1902 and also led the Conservative Party in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886. Due to the length of his service, he was Father of the House from 1901 to 1906, when he took his peerage.
Marquess of Anglesey is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1815 for Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, a hero of the Battle of Waterloo, second in command to the Duke of Wellington. The Marquess holds the subsidiary titles of Earl of Uxbridge, in the County of Middlesex, in the Peerage of Great Britain (1784), Baron Paget, de Beaudesert, in the Peerage of England (1553), and is also an Irish Baronet, of Plas Newydd in the County of Anglesey and of Mount Bagenall in the County of Louth.
Earl of Roden is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1771 for Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Viscount Jocelyn. This branch of the Jocelyn family descends from the 1st Viscount, prominent Irish lawyer and politician Robert Jocelyn, the son of Thomas Jocelyn, third son of Sir Robert Jocelyn, 1st Baronet, of Hyde Hall. He notably served as the Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1739 to 1756. In 1743, he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Newport, of Newport, and in 1755 he was further honoured, when he was made Viscount Jocelyn, also in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded by his son, the second Viscount. He represented Old Leighlin in the Irish House of Commons and served as Auditor-General of Ireland. In 1770 he also succeeded his first cousin once removed as fifth Baronet of Hyde Hall. In 1771 he was created Earl of Roden, of High Roding in the County of Tipperary, in the Peerage of Ireland. Lord Roden married Lady Anne Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil and sister of James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil, a title which became extinct in 1798.
Earl of Iddesleigh, in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1885 for the Conservative politician Sir Stafford Northcote, 8th Baronet, of Pynes in the parish of Upton Pyne near Exeter in Devon and lord of the manor of Iddesleigh, 28 miles north-west of Pynes. He served as President of the Board of Trade, Secretary of State for India, Chancellor of the Exchequer, First Lord of the Treasury and Foreign Secretary and was Joint Leader of the Conservative Party from 1881 to 1885. Northcote was made Viscount St Cyres, of Newton Saint Cyres in the County of Devon, at the same time he was given the earldom. This title is also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Earl of Gainsborough is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation ended in extinction when the sixth Earl died without heirs. However, the title was revived in 1841 for a female-line relative.
Earl St Aldwyn, of Coln St Aldwyn in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. 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. Hicks Beach had already been created Viscount St Aldwyn, of Coln St Aldwyn in the County of Gloucester, in 1906, and was made Viscount Quenington, of Quenington in the County of Gloucester, at the same time he was given the earldom. Both titles are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Earl, the son of Michael Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington, Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury, who was killed in action in 1916. Lord St Aldwyn was also a Conservative politician and was Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms between 1958 and 1964 and 1970 and 1974. As of 2018 the titles are held by his eldest son, the third Earl, who succeeded in 1992.
Sir William Arthur Mount, 1st Baronet CBE DL was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for the Newbury constituency. He is the great-grandfather of Conservative politician David Cameron, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016.
Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue DL, known as Viscount Ebrington from 1841 to 1861, was a British peer and occasional Liberal Party politician.
William Frederick Hicks Beach JP was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Tewkesbury from 1916 to 1918, having been returned, aged 74, at a by-election in succession to his nephew, Viscount Quenington, who had been killed in action during the First World War.
Sir Michael Hicks Hicks-Beach, 8th Baronet DL was a British Conservative Party MP and High Sheriff.
Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington was a British politician.
Arthur Saunders Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran KP, PC (Ire) styled The Honourable Arthur Gore from 1758 to 1762 and Viscount Sudley from 1762 to 1773, was an Irish peer and politician.
Michael John Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn was a British Conservative politician. He achieved the distinction of serving in the governments of five different prime ministers.
Sir John Michael Fleetwood Fuller, 1st Baronet, was a British Liberal Party politician and colonial administrator.
George Pargiter Fuller, was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1895.
Sir Herbert Charles Perrott, 5th and 1st Baronet, was an English baronet who succeeded to a 1716 baronetcy in 1886 and was created a baronet in his own right on 21 June 1911 with precedence to his heirs male from the 1716 creation. Since there were no sons, the baronetcies became extinct with his death in 1922.
Sir William Hicks, 1st Baronet, of Beverston, in Gloucestershire, and of Ruckholt, at Leyton in Essex, was an English Member of Parliament.
Thomas Reynolds-Moreton, 1st Earl of Ducie was the first Earl of Ducie.
Sir Alexander Bannerman, 6th Baronet was a Scottish doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Aberdeen.
