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William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, KG, KCMG, CB, KStJ, PC (20 February 1872 – 14 November 1938), styled Viscount Elmley until 1891, was a British Liberal politician.
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, as Governor of New South Wales in 1899. Earl Beauchamp (/ ˈ b iː tʃ əm /) was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The peerage was created in 1815 for William Lygon, 1st Baron Beauchamp, along with the subsidiary title Viscount Elmley, in the County of Worcester.
During the 1920s Walmer was home to William Lygon, 7th Earl of Beauchamp, who held lavish homosexual parties at the castle. This led eventually to his dramatic fall from grace, the break-up of his family, and the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh’s most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited .
The 7th Earl Beauchamp was a diplomat and politician, reaching cabinet minister level in 1910 and serving in Liberal governments until 1915. He hosted important war conferences at Walmer with the Prime Minister, HH Asquith, in the first two years of the First World War.
In the 1930s the 7th Earl de Beauchamp, Sir William Lygon, extended a welcome to Wm. Daniel Ligon, Jr. of Virginia to spend a summer vacation at Madresfield Court. The result was a wonderful transference of historical records to the American branch of the family which resulted in Volume I of The Ligon Family & Connections.
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872-1938), governor, was appointed to the position of Governor of NSW in 1899. During his two years in NSW, Beauchamp was criticised by some for his aristocratic background, but spoken of by his friend Henry Lawson as 'a fine, intelligent cultured gentleman' who 'understood and loved the bush people of ...
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872-1938), Politician; Governor of New South Wales. Sitter in 11 portraits
