Michael Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington
Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington was a British politician.
Cover of memorial service sheet, 4 May 1916, for Lord St. Aldwyn (1837–1916) & Viscount Quenington (1877–1916).
Hicks-Beach named on the Freemasons' War Memorial at Gloucester Cathedral
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn
Michael Edward Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn,, known as Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt, from 1854 to 1906 and subsequently as The Viscount St Aldwyn to 1915, was a British Conservative politician. Known as "Black Michael", he notably served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1885 to 1886 and again from 1895 to 1902 and also led the Conservative Party in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886. Due to the length of his service, he was Father of the House from 1901 to 1906, when he took his peerage.
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn
Michael Hicks Beach (centre) with Arthur Balfour (left) and Joseph Chamberlain (right), by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould.
1887 cartoon of Hicks Beach ("Mickey the Botch") being dragged to the House of Commons by Erin.
Memorial to Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach in Gloucester Cathedral