The Henson Journals

Michael Hicks-Beach

Michael Hicks-Beach (1837-1916; ODNB), viscount St Aldwyn (1906), 1st earl St Aldwyn (1915), chancellor of the exchequer, 1885-6, 1895-1902. Christ Church, Oxford; MP (C), 1864-1906; 'Father of the House'; member of restoration committee, St Margaret's, Westminster, 1905-6: Retrospect, I, 142; Conservative free trader; opposed Liberal social reforms in the Lords; chairman, Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline, 1904-6; ecclesiastical commissioner, 1908-16.

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See also Hicks Beach, Michael; Keane [née Hicks-Beach], Eleanor Lucy; Reid [née Hicks-Beach], Violet Elizabeth; Hicks Beach [née Fortescue], Lucy Catherine; note42