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 BEAUCHAMP 43 M.P. (Conservative) for West Worcestershire, 1853-63. Cornet in the 1st Life Guards, 1848; Capt. 1854., He d. unm., 4 Mar. 1866, of consumption, at 13 Belgrave Sq., aged 37. VI. 1866. 6. Frederick (Lygon), Earl Beauchamp, tfc, next and only surv. br. and h., b. 10 Nov. 1830. Ed. at Eton, 1844-47; rnatric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 15 Dec. 1848; Pres. of the Oxford Union Soc. i85i.(") B.A. and Fellow of All Souls' Coll., 1852; M.A., 1856; cr. D.C.L. 22 June 1870; M.P. (Conservative) for Tewkes- bury, 1857-63; for West Worcestershire, 1863-66; a Lord of the Admiralty, Mar. to June 1859; Lord Steward of the Household, 1874-80; P.C. 2 Mar. 1874; Lord Lieut, of Worcestershire, 1876 till his death; one of the Council of Keble Coll. Oxford. Paymaster Gen. 1885-86, and 1886-87. He w., istly, 18 Feb. 1868, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Mary Catherine, da. of Philip Henry (Stanhope), 5th Earl Stanhope, by Emily Harriet, da. of G^n. Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart. She was b. 3 Feb. 1844, and d. 30 June i876.('') He OT., 2ndly, 24 Sep. 1878, at Perlethorpe, Notts, Emily Annora Charlotte, ist da. of Sydney William (Pierrepont), 3rd Earl Manvers, by Georgiana Jane Elizabeth Fanny de Franquetot, da. of Gustave, Duke de Coigny in France. She was b. (> Mar. 1853. He d. 19 Feb. 1 891, suddenly, at dinner, of heart disease, at Madresfield Court, aged 6o.('') Will pr. at ^^i 14,741. His widow living 1909. VII. 1 891. 7. William (Lygon), Earl Beauchamp [18 15], Vis- count Elmley [1855] and Baron Beauchamp of Powyk [1806], 1st s. and h. by ist wife; b. 20 Feb. 1872, in London; styled Viscount Elmley till 1891; ed. at Eton and at Ch. Ch. Oxford; Pres. of the Oxford Union Soc. i893;(*) Mayor of Worcester, 1895-96. Member of London School Board (Finsbury) 1897-99. K.C.M.G. 16 Feb. 1899; Gov. of New South Wales, 1 899-1902 ;('') P.C. 8 Jan. 1906; (*) For a list of peers who have held this and the corresponding position at Cambridge, see vol. iv, Appendix F. V.G. (^) "Lady Beauchamp was a remarkable woman, clever, accomplished, well educated, with a great deal of her father's gift of conversation, and love of Society." {Memories of Fifty Tears, by Lady St. Helier, 1909, p. 94). V.G. (') Archbishop Benson writes of him on his death, — " People did not like his brusque, straight address, as I did. Was a very smart, bright man, and a little chimerical — gaily dressed, and brushed, and beneath a most loving son of the Church." V.G. (^) By a display of quite exceptional tactlessness, he managed to produce a bad impression in the colony he was to govern before he had set foot in it. On landing in Australia, he was asked by a reporter if he had any message which might be com- municated, and the noble lord replied by quoting the line, " Her birth stains she has turned to good." This patronising reference to the improved moral standard of N. S. Wales, and injudicious allusion to its convict origin, was naturally resented, and led to some Sydney wag parodying the well-known quack advertisement thus, "Beauchamp's pills cure Birth stains." He holds his present (19 10) office from the Liberal Govt, as he did his Colonial Governorship from the Conservative. The