Background
Beauchamp was the third son of Henry Lygon, 4th Earl Beauchamp, and Lady Susan Caroline, daughter of William Eliot, 2nd Earl of Street Germans.
Beauchamp was the third son of Henry Lygon, 4th Earl Beauchamp, and Lady Susan Caroline, daughter of William Eliot, 2nd Earl of Street Germans.
He was educated at Eton, was President of the Oxford Union in 1851 and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1856 with an Master of Arts degree.
He served under Benjamin Disraeli as Lord Steward of the Household between 1874 and 1880 and under Lord Salisbury as Paymaster-General between 1885 and 1886 and again between 1886 and 1887. In 1874 he was sworn of the Privy Council. He was also Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire between 1876 and 1891.
They had five children:
Lady Mary Lygon (26 February 1869-1812 September 1927), married 1905 Lieutenant-Colonel
Henry Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis (a son of the 20th Baron Clinton) and had issue. Lady Susan Lygon (24 May 1870 – 28 January 1962), married 1889 Sir Robert Gilmour, 1st Baronet, and had issue.
William Lygon, Viscount Elmley, later 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872–1938)
Lieutenant The Honorary Edward Hugh Lygon (1873–1900), killed in the Second Boer War.
Lady Margaret Lygon (1874–1957), married the 2nd Baron Ampthill and had issue.
Honorary Robert Lygon (9 August 1879 – 13 January 1952). M.10 October 1903 Cecil Albinia Arbuthnot.
They had issue, one son Reginald (who died in 1976, aged 72, shortly before his half-cousin the 8th Earl.
He had only daughters). Honorary Henry Lygon (10 April 1884 – 23 February 1936) who died unmarried aged 51. Lady Agnes Lygon (7 December 1880 – 1960).
M. 1906 Honorary
Arthur George Villiers Peel (27 February 1868-1825 April 1956), and had issue. Lady Maud Lygon, later Lady Maud Hoare, and still later (1944) Viscountess Templewood (5 July 1882 – 27 December 1962) married 1909 Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (1880–1959). They had no issue. Lady Maud was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1927.
Lord Beauchamp died on 19 February 1891, aged 60, at his home, Madresfield Court, from a heart attack he suffered at dinner that night.
His eighteen-year-old eldest son William succeeded him in the earldom. He was buried in the grounds of Madresfield Court, in the remains of the Old Church"s graveyard, under a large stone cross.
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Beauchamp was Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury from 1857 to 1863 and for West Worcestershire from 1863 to 1866.