Michael Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington

Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington (19 January 1877 – 23 April 1916), was a British politician.

Viscount Quenington from the Roll of Honour published in The Illustrated London News on 6 May 1916.

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. He sat as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Tewkesbury from 1906 to 1916 and was a board member at Lloyds Bank.

Cover of memorial service sheet, 4 May 1916, for Lord St. Aldwyn (1837–1916) & Viscount Quenington (1877–1916).
Hicks-Beach named on the Freemasons' War Memorial at Gloucester Cathedral

Hicks-Beach fought in the First World War as a Captain with the 1/1st Royal Gloucestershire Hussars and died, aged 39, on 23 April 1916 as a result of wounds received at Katia, Egypt. He is buried at the Cairo New British Protestant Cemetery alongside his wife.[1] Viscount Quenington is commemorated on Panel 8 of the Parliamentary War Memorial in Westminster Hall, one of 22 MPs that died during World War I to be named on that memorial.[2][3] Viscount Quenington is one of 19 MPs who fell in the war who are commemorated by heraldic shields in the Commons Chamber.[4] A further act of commemoration came with the unveiling in 1932 of a manuscript-style illuminated book of remembrance for the House of Commons, which includes a short biographical account of the life and death of Viscount Quenington.[5][6]

From 1915, when his father was created 1st Earl St Aldwyn, Hicks-Beach held the courtesy title of Viscount Quenington.

Marriage and children

Hicks-Beach married Marjorie Brocklehurst, daughter of Henry Dent Brocklehurst of Sudeley Castle, on 28 September 1909. They had two children:[7]

Lady Quenington died in Egypt[9] on 4 March 1916, less than two months before her husband. Their son Michael succeeded his grandfather in the earldom only a week after his father's death. He also became a prominent politician.

References
  1. "Casualty Details: Hicks-Beach, Michael Hugh". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  2. "Recording Angel memorial Panel 8". Recording Angel memorial, Westminster Hall. UK Parliament (www.parliament.uk). Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  3. "List of names on the Recording Angel memorial, Westminster Hall" (pdf). Recording Angel memorial, Westminster Hall. UK Parliament (www.parliament.uk). Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  4. "Hicks-Beach". Heraldic shields to MPs, First World War. UK Parliament (www.parliament.uk). Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  5. "House of Commons War Memorial: Final Volumes Unveiled by The Speaker". The Times (46050). London. 6 February 1932. p. 7.
  6. Moss-Blundell, Edward Whitaker, ed. (1931). The House of Commons Book of Remembrance 1914–1918. E. Mathews & Marrot.
  7. The Peerage, entry for Viscount Quenington
  8. Obituary of Lady Delia Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn
  9. cf Plaque in the chapel at Sudeley Castle.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir John Dorington, Bt		 Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury
1906–1916		 Succeeded by
William Frederick Hicks-Beach
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