W. W. Hicks Beach
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Major William Whitehead Hicks Beach (23 March 1907 – 1 January 1975) was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Cheltenham from 1950 to 1964 and was also an Alderman of Cheltenham Borough Council.
Life
[edit]The son of Ellis Hicks Beach (1874–1943) by his marriage to Nancy Whitehead, he was the grandson of William Frederick Hicks-Beach (1841–1923), a younger brother of Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn.[1][2]
He was promoted to Captain in the Territorial Army Royal Armoured Corps.[3]
On 12 September 1939, Hicks-Beach married Diana Hoare (1911–2002), a daughter of Christopher "Kit" Gurney Hoare, the chairman of stockbrokers Hoare & Co.[4] They had two daughters, Elizabeth (later Mrs Hinson) and Rosemary (later Mrs Naylor), and a son, Mark Hicks Beach (1943–1998).
He is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Great Witcombe, Gloucestershire.[5]
A road on the Hesters Way housing estate in Cheltenham is named after him.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Burke's Peerage: Earl Saint Aldwyn entry from Burke's Peerage at rootsandleaves.com, accessed 2 October 2008
- ^ Stratton genealogy[usurped] at kittybrewster.com, retrieved 2 October 2008
- ^ "Territorial Army". London Gazette (Supplement:34668): 6053. 1 September 1939.
- ^ "Hoare, Christopher [Kit] Gurney". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 23 September 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48810. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Some Memorial Inscriptions, Great Witcombe, Gloucestershire
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