Earl Beauchamp
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The title Earl Beauchamp (pronounced "Beecham") was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1815 for William Lygon, 1st Baron Beauchamp (the family surname is pronounced "Liggon"), along with the subsidiary title Viscount Elmley, in the County of Worcester. The 1st Earl had been created Baron Beauchamp of Powyck in the County of Worcester, in 1806. All three peerages became extinct upon the death of the 8th Earl in 1979. The Earls Beauchamp were descended in the female line from the Barons Beauchamp of Powick, of the first creation, and through them from the early Earls of Warwick.
[edit] Baron Beauchamp of Powyck, Second Creation (1806)
[edit] Earl Beauchamp (1815)
- William Lygon, 1st Earl Beauchamp (1747–1816)
- William Beauchamp Lygon, 2nd Earl Beauchamp (1782–1823)
- John Reginald Lygon, later Pyndar, 3rd Earl Beauchamp (1784–1853)
- Henry Beauchamp Lygon, 4th Earl Beauchamp (1784–1863)
- Henry Lygon, 5th Earl Beauchamp (1829–1866)
- Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp (1830–1891)
- William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872–1938)
- William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp (1903–1979)
