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LYGON, HENRY BEAUCHAMP, 4TH EARL BEAUCHAMP, brother of William Lygon, 2nd Earl Beauchamp (qv); b. 5 Jun 1784; in school lists 1795, 1797; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Jan 1803; Cornet, 13th Light Dragoons 12 Jul 1803; Lieut., 24 May 1804; Capt., 50th Foot 20 Jan 1807; 16th Light Dragoons 14 Feb 1807; Maj., 19 May 1812; Lieut. -Col., 1st Life Guards 16 Sep 1815; Col., 24 Mar 1822; Maj. -Gen., 10 Jan 1837; Lieut. -Gen., 9 Nov 1846; Gen., 20 Jun 1854; served in Peninsular War and wounded at battle of Busaco 27 Sep 1810; MP (Tory/Conservative) Worcestershire 5 Dec 1816-31, West Worcestershire 1832 – 22 Jan 1853; succ. brother as 4th Earl Beauchamp 22 Jan 1853; DL Worcestershire 1832; m. 8 Jul 1824 Lady Susan Caroline Eliot, sister of Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St. Germans (qv); d. 8 Sep 1863.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.