Major William Whitehead Hicks-Beach (23 March 1907 – 1 January 1975) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheltenham from 1950 to 1964, and also an Alderman of Cheltenham Borough Council.
He was a relative of the Earls St Aldwyn. He married Diana (née Hoare) (1911–2002), daughter of Christopher Gurney Hoare, on 12 September 1939, and they had two daughters, Elizabeth Hinson and Rosemary Naylor, and one son, Mark Hicks Beach (1943–1998).
He is buried in the The Blessed Virgin St Mary's Churchyard, at Great Witcombe in Gloucestershire.[1]
A road on the Hesters Way council estate in Cheltenham is named for him.
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Preceded by Daniel Lipson |
Member of Parliament for Cheltenham 1950–1964 |
Succeeded by Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker |