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Major William Whitehead Hicks Beach (23 March 1907 – 1 January 1975) was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Cheltenham from 1950to1964 and was also an AldermanofCheltenham Borough Council.

Life[edit]

The son of Ellis Hicks Beach (1874–1943) by his marriage to Nancy Whitehead, he was the grandson of William Frederick Hicks-Beach (1841–1923), a younger brother of Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn.[1][2]

He was promoted to Captain in the Territorial Army Royal Armoured Corps [3]

On 12 September 1939 Hicks-Beach married Diana Hoare (1911–2002), a daughter of Christopher "Kit" Gurney Hoare, the chairman of stockbrokers Hoare & Co.[4] they had two daughters, Elizabeth (later Mrs Hinson) and Rosemary (later Mrs Naylor), and one son, Mark Hicks Beach (1943–1998).

He is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Great Witcombe, Gloucestershire.[5]

A road on the Hesters Way housing estate in Cheltenham is named after him.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Burke's Peerage: Earl Saint Aldwyn entry from Burke's Peerage at rootsandleaves.com, accessed 2 October 2008
  • ^ Stratton genealogy[usurped] at kittybrewster.com, retrieved 2 October 2008
  • ^ "Territorial Army". London Gazette (Supplement:34668): 6053. 1 September 1939.
  • ^ "Hoare, Christopher [Kit] Gurney". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 September 2004.
  • ^ Some Memorial Inscriptions, Great Witcombe, Gloucestershire
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    Parliament of the United Kingdom
    Preceded by

    Daniel Lipson

    Member of Parliament for Cheltenham
    19501964
    Succeeded by

    Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker


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