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5 de set. de 2011 · Hon. William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp Lygon in fancy dress What do Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited; the Hon. William Lygon, 7 th Earl Beauchamp (Governor of New South Wales 1899-1901), and Hugh D. McIntosh (the controversial boxing promoter/entrepreneur and parliamentarian) have in common.
Lady Susan Lygon (24 May 1870 – 28 January 1962), married 1889 Sir Robert Gilmour, 1st Baronet, and had issue. William Lygon, Viscount Elmley, later 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872–1938) Lieutenant Hon. Edward Hugh Lygon (1873–23 March 1900), an officer in the Grenadier Guards, killed in South Africa during the Second Boer War.
Their son Reginald Pyndar (d. 1788) succeeded to the Lygon estates on his mother’s death in 1736 and took the name of Lygon. The Worcestershire and Gloucestershire estates (both with adjacent properties in Herefordshire) were extended in the 19th century, notably by William Lygon (1747-1816), who was created Earl Beauchamp in 1815.
Within the year Frederick Lygon pushed forward the major reconstruction of the court begun by his brother, a building programme that continued almost until the 6th earl's death in 1891. Brideshead Revisited: 1920s–1938. Madresfield was the home of the 7th Earl Beauchamp.
Lady Lettice Lygon (16 June 1906 – 18 July 1973) was an English socialite and aristocrat who was one of the Bright Young Things. Early life [ edit ] Lady Lettice Lygon was born on 16 June 1906, the daughter of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp and Lady Lettice Mary Elizabeth Grosvenor, a daughter of Victor Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor .
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp KG, KCMG, CB, KStJ, PC (20 February 1872 – 14 November 1938), styled Viscount Elmley until 1891, was a British Liberal politician.
