Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp

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Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp, PC (10 November 1830–19 February 1891) was the son of the 4th Earl Beauchamp.

Lygon was educated at Eton, was President of the Oxford Union in 1851 and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1856 with an MA degree. He was Conservative MP for Tewkesbury from 1857 to 1863 and Conservative MP for West Worcestershire from 1863 to 1866. On 4 March 1866, he inherited the Earldom of Beauchamp from his childless brother and on 18 February 1868, he married Lady Mary Stanhope, a daughter of the 5th Earl Stanhope, at St George's Church on Hanover Square, London. They had five children:

• Lady Mary Lygon (1869–1927), married Lt.-Col. Henry Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis (a son of the 20th Baron Clinton) and had issue.
• Lady Susan Lygon b. 24 May 1870, d. 28 Jan 1962, married Robert Gordon Gilmour and had issue.
• William Lygon, Viscount Elmley, later 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872–1938)
• Lieutenant The Hon. Edward Hugh Lygon (1873–1900), killed in the Second Boer War.
• Lady Margaret Lygon (1874–1957), married the 2nd Baron Ampthill and had issue.

Lady Beauchamp died in 1876 and on 24 September 1878 Lord Beauchamp married Lady Emily Pierrepont, a daughter of the 3rd Earl Manvers, at Perlethorpe in Nottinghamshire and they had four children. Frederick died on 19 February 1891 at his home, Madresfield Court, from a heart attack he suffered at dinner that night.

Political offices
Preceded by: The Earl of Bessborough	Lord Steward 1874–1880	Succeeded by: The Earl Sydney
Preceded by: The Lord Wolverton	Paymaster General 1886	Succeeded by: The Lord Wolverton
Preceded by: The Lord Wolverton	Paymaster General 1886–1887	Succeeded by: The Earl of Brownlow
Honorary Titles
Preceded by: The Lord Lyttelton	Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire 1876–1891	Succeeded by: The Earl of Coventry
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: Henry Lygon	Earl Beauchamp 1866–1891	Succeeded by: William Lygon