Background
Beauchamp was the second but eldest surviving son of General Henry Lygon, 4th Earl Beauchamp, by his wife Lady Susan Caroline, daughter of William Eliot, 2nd Earl of Street Germans.
Beauchamp was the second but eldest surviving son of General Henry Lygon, 4th Earl Beauchamp, by his wife Lady Susan Caroline, daughter of William Eliot, 2nd Earl of Street Germans.
Lygon served in the 1st Life Guards. He purchased a commission as a lieutenant on 5 May 1848, succeeding Honorary Dudley Fitzgerald-deRos.
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In 1853 he succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Worcestershire West, a seat he held until 1863, when he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords.