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William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp, JP, DL (3 July 1903 – 3 January 1979), styled as Viscount Elmley until 1938, was a politician in the United Kingdom.
Earl Beauchamp ( / ˈbiːtʃəm /) was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . The peerage was created in 1815 for William Lygon, 1st Baron Beauchamp, along with the subsidiary title Viscount Elmley, in the County of Worcester.
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.
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...
During the 1920s Walmer was home to William Lygon, 7th Earl of Beauchamp, who held lavish homosexual parties at the castle. This led eventually to his dramatic fall from grace, the break-up of his family, and the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh’s most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited .
He voted against Catholic relief, 22 June. On 25 June he was proposed by Castlereagh as a member of the committee of inquiry into Lincoln gaol, as a county Member, instead of William Wellesley Pole, which proposal was carried by 36 votes to 27. He was in the minority against the penitentiary grant, 1 July.
An aristocratic Governor. William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp, was born on 20 February 1872 at Belgrave Square, London, at the apex of privilege of the most privileged class the world has ever known – the landed nobility of England at the zenith of the British Empire.
