Earl Beauchamp
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The title Earl Beauchamp (pronounced "Beecham") was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1815 for the 1st Baron Beauchamp, along with the subsidiary title Viscount Elmley, in the County of Worcester. The 1st Earl had been created Baron Beauchamp, of Powyke 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 the fifth creation ("of Powyke"), and through them from the early Earls of Warwick. The family surname was pronounced "Liggon". The ancestral family seat of the Earls Beauchamp was Madresfield Court, near Malvern, Worcestershire. It is currently the home of the Hon Lady Morrison, a niece of the 8th and last Earl Beauchamp and the younger daughter of the late Hon Richard Lygon, the youngest son of the 7th Earl by his wife, the former Lady Lettice Grosvenor.
[edit] Barons Beauchamp, seventh 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)
