MICHAEL HICKS BEACH, VISCOUNT QUENINGTON

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'Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington' (19 January 1877–23 April 1916), was a British politician.
Hicks Beach was the eldest son of the former Chancellor, Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, and his wife Lucy Catherine (née Lady Lucy Catherine Fortescue). He sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tewkesbury from 1906 to 1916. He fought in the First World War as a Captain in the Army and was killed in action in Egypt in April 1916, aged 39.
From 1915, he held the courtesy title of Viscount Quenington, a subsidiary title held by his father. He married Marjorie, daughter of Henry Dent Brocklehurst, in 1909. She died in March 1916, less than two months before her husband. Their son Michael, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn succeeded his grandfather in the earldom only a week after his father's death. He also became a prominent politician.

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