Social Victorians/People/Hicks-Beach

Also Known As

 * Family name: Hicks-Beach or Hicks Beach
 * Michael Hicks Beach: "Black Michael"
 * Earl Saint Aldwyn
 * Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl Saint Aldwyn (22 February 1915 – 30 April 1916)
 * Viscount Quenington
 * Michael Hugh Hicks-Beach, 1st Viscount Quenington (22 February 1915 – 23 April 1916)
 * Viscount Saint Aldwyn
 * Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, 1st Viscount Saint Aldwyn (6 January 1906 – 22 February 1915)
 * Baronet Hicks
 * Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, 9th Baronet Hicks (22 November 1854 – 6 January 1906)
 * VIAF ID: 19204909

Demographics

 * Nationality: British

Residences

 * Netheravon, Wiltshire ( – 1898)

Family

 * Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl Saint Aldwyn (23 October 1837 – 30 April 1916)
 * Caroline Susan Elwes (4 April 1845 – 14 August 1865)
 * Lady Lucy Catherine Fortescue (1851 – 19 March 1940)
 * Lady Eleanor Lucy Hicks-Beach (29 October 1875 – 1 December 1960)
 * Michael Hugh Hicks-Beach, Viscount Quenington (19 January 1877 – 23 April 1916)
 * Lady Susan Evelyn Hicks-Beach (15 June 1878 – 17 February 1965)
 * Lady Victoria Alexandrina Hicks-Beach (12 September 1879 – 29 April 1963)

Michael Hicks-Beach

 * Eton College
 * Christ Church, Oxford University (BA, 1858; MA, 1861)
 * Conservative Member of Parliament for East Gloucester (1864–1885)
 * Under-Secretary, Home Department (1868)
 * Parliamentary Secretary, Poor Law Board (1868)
 * Privy Counsellor, Ireland (1874)
 * Privy Counsellor (1874)
 * Chief Secretary, Ireland (1874–1878)
 * Colonial Secretary (1878–1880)
 * Chancellor of the Exchequer (1885–1886)
 * Conservative Member of Parliament for West Bristol (1885–1906)
 * President, Board of Trade (1888–1892)
 * Church Estates Commissioner (1892–1895)
 * Chancellor of the Exchequer (1895–1902)
 * Father of the House (1901–1906)
 * Independent Chairman, South Wales Coal Trade Conciliation Board

Timeline
1864 January 6, Michael Edward Hicks-Beach and Caroline Susan Elwes married.

1874 September 3, Michael Edward Hicks-Beach and Lady Lucy Catherine Fortescue married.

1897 July 2, Sir M. and Lady Lucy Hicks-Beach attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

1902 August 9, just after King Edward VII's coronation Louise, Duchess of Devonshire tried "to reach the Ladies' before anyone else":"After the long ceremony she tried to hurry out in the wake of the royal procession, but found herself stopped by a line of Grenadier Guards. Leonie [ Leonie Leslie] and Jennie [ Lady Randolph Churchill], who were descending from the King's special box, heard her upbraiding the officers in front of all the other peeresses, many of whom were themselves most uncomfortable. Then, trying to push her way past them, she missed her footing and fell headlong down a flight of steps to roll over on her back at the feet of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Michael Hicks Beach), who stared paralyzed at this heap of velvet and ermine. The Marquis de Soveral swiftly took charge of the situation and had her lifted to her feet while Margot Asquith nimbly retrieved the coronet, which was bouncing along the stalls, and placed it back on her head. It was a moment in which younger women naturally had to give precedence to an angry Duchess."

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach (at 476) and Lady Lucy Hicks-Beach (at 477) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Notes and Questions

 * 1) Michael Hugh Hicks-Beach, Viscount Quenington died in action in Egypt in World War I.