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--- "Country Life" Vol. 168, page 1459:
She concludes rather sadly: "He was very glad, he said, to see me again, for he had now only two old friends left, myself and another. His son, who was wounded in Portugal, is now recovering. He had a most narrow escape, being shot through the throat, but the windpipe escaped. The son was Henry Lygone, Lord Beauchamp's third. He had been fighting with the British Army in the attempt to relieve Almerda. Col. Willoughby Cotton, later General Sir Willoughby Cotton, wrote to a family friend asking him to break the news of the wound, saying that Lygon had been attended by Wellington's own surgeon. Cotton called him "the most intimate friend I have and as gallant an officer as ever served".
--- A mention in "Birmingham Daily Post" (25 Feb 1891) states the following about the graves of the older Lygons:
"The earlier members of the family, from the time when a title was conferred upon its direct line of succession, were buried within the park, where a smaller edifice stood until the new church was finished and consecrated. Six tablets of white marble, at the west end of the church, are graven with the brief records of their births and deaths, but with little else. The largest tablet, which has a central position behind the small font, is also the most interesting . . ."
--- "Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard" 03 Sep 1844, page 1:
The Earl of St. Germans is surrounded by a select party at Port Eliot, the noble Earl's seat, in Conrwall. The Earl of Harrowby has arrived on a visit to the Earl. Lord Eliot, the Secretary for Ireland, joined Lady Jemima Eliot and family on Monday. The Hon. General Lygon and Miss Lygon are among the visitors.
--- "The Gentleman's Magazine" Vol. 15, 1863, page 506-7:
General Earl Beauchamp.
Sept. 8. At Madresfield Court, Great Malvern, aged 79, the Rt. Hon. Earl Beauchamp.
The deceased nobleman, Henry Beauchamp Lygon, Earl Beauchamp, Viscount Elmley, and Baron Beauchamp of Powyke, Worcestershire, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, was the third son of William Lygon, first Earl, by his marriage with Catherine, only daughter of James Denn, Esq. He entered the army July 9, 1803, served in the Peninsula with the 16th Dragoons at the capture of Oporto, battles of Talavera and Busaco, and elsewhere, and was very severely wounded at Busaco. He eventually became a General in the army, Colonel in succession of the 10th Hussars and the 2nd Life Guards, and Gold Stick in Waiting to the Queen. As General Lygon, he sat in the House of Commons for the county of Worcester before the passing of the Reform Bill, and afterwards for the Western Division of the county --- altogether for more than a quarter of a century. He was first elected for the county in 1816; and during the Reform agitation, being opposed to the measure, the noble Earl, then General Lygon, was defeated. This was the only defeat he ever sustained. The Reform Bill passed in the next year, and Worcestershire was separated into two divisions, East and West, and at the election consequent upon that division General Lygon was elected for West Worcestershire, and continued to sit for the division until his elevation to the Upper House. In politics he was a Conservative. In 1853 he succeeded his brother, John Reginald, third Earl. In 1824 he married Lady Susan Caroline Eliot, second daughter of William second Earl of St. Germans; she was born April 12, 1801, and died January 15, 1835. The had issue--- Felicia Susan, born in 1825, and died in 1848, having married the Rev. Charles Cavendish; Georgiana Harriet, born in 1826, died in 1827; William, born in 1828, died in 1834; Henry, Viscount Elmley, Captain 1st Life Guards, and M.P. (now Earl Beauchamp), born 1829; Hon. Frederick, M.P. for Tewkesbury, born 1830; Lady Georgiana (now Lady Raglan), born 1832; and Reginald, born and died in 1834.
'The death of Henry Beauchamp Lygon, fourth Earl Beauchamp,' says a local paper, 'will create a void which will not be readily filled up. In him the nation has lost a faithful and trustworthy servant and soldier; the county of Worcester an ornament of which it was justly proud, and a benefactor whose help was always to be reckoned upon when any charitable or benevolent work was on hand; while in all the various duties of a country gentleman he was a model for universal imitation. As a landlord, perhaps no man was ever more attached to or beloved by his tenantry than the late Earl. Considerate, kind, and affable, the transactions between them afforded occasions of mutual gratification, for to his numerous tenants a meeting with the Earl on matters of business was a meeting of pleasure.'
The first Earl, William Lygon (ennobled in 1806, and who was M.P. for Worcestershire for upwards of thirty years), was the son of Reginald Pyndar, who took the name of Lygon after the family of his mother, who was descended in the female line from the extinct house of Beauchamp, Lords Beauchamp of Powyke.
The present peer, before named as Viscount Elmley, was born Feb. 13, 1829, and entered the army as cornet in the First Life Guards in 1843; he is now senior captain of the regiment. He was elected member for the western division of Worcestershire in March, 1853, and continued to represent the county in the House of Commons until his elevation to the House of Lords.
--- "Worcestershire Chronicle" 19 Oct 1864, page 3:
THE LATE EARL BEAUCHAMP.
Two handsome memorial tablets have just been erected in the church at Madresfield, in record of the deaths of the late Earl Beauchamp and his wife, Lady Susan Lygon. They bear the following inscriptions:--- "To the memory of Henry Beauchamp Lygon, 4th Earl Beauchamp, Colonel of Her Majesty's Second Regiment of Life Guards. Born January 6th, 1785, died September 8th, 1863. He was eleven times chosen knight of the shire for the couty of Worcester."
"To Lady Susan Lygon, 2nd daughter of William, 2nd Earl of St. Germans, married in 1824, to henry, afterwards 4th Earl Beauchamp, died 1835. This tablet was erected in affectionate remembrance by her three surviving children, Henry, 5th Earl Beauchamp, Frederick Lygon, Georgiana (Lady Raglan)."
The tablets were executed by My. Joseph Stephens, sculptor, Copenhagen-street, of this city.
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