Earl St Aldwyn

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Earl St Aldwyn, of Coln St Aldwyn in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1915 for the 1st Viscount St Aldwyn, who, as Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, 9th Baronet, of Beverston had been a prominent Conservative politician of the late 19th century. Lord St Aldwyn bears the subsidiary titles of Viscount Saint Aldwyn, of Coln St Aldwyn in the County of Gloucester (1906), and Viscount Quenington, of Quenington in the County of Gloucester (1915), both in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

The Baronetcy, of Beverston in the County of Gloucester, was created in the Baronetage of England in 1619 for William Hicks, who represented Marlow and Tewkesbury in the House of Commons. He was the son of Sir Michael Hicks, secretary to Lord Burghley, and the nephew of Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden, from whom the Earls of Gainsbrorough descends. The eighth Baronet's grandfather, Michael Hicks, had assumed the additional surname of Beach when marrying Henrietta Maria Beach, only surviving daughter and heiress of William Beach.

The family seat is Williamstrip House, Coln St Aldwyn, near Fairford, Gloucestershire.

1 Hicks and Hicks Beach Baronets, of Beverston (1619)
2 Viscounts Saint Aldwyn (1906)
3 Earls Saint Aldwyn (1915)
4 See also
5 Reference

[edit] Hicks and Hicks Beach Baronets, of Beverston (1619)

Sir William Hicks, 1st Baronet (1596-1680
Sir William Hicks, 2nd Baronet (1629-1703
Sir Henry Hicks, 3rd Baronet (1666-1755)
Sir Robert Hicks, 4th Baronet (d. 1768)
Sir John Baptist Hicks, 5th Baronet (d. 1792)
Sir Howe Hicks, 6th Baronet (1722-1801)
Sir Hilliam Hicks, 7th Baronet (1754-1834)
Sir Michael Hicks Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet (1809-1854)
Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, 9th Baronet (1837-1916) (created Viscount St Aldwyn in 1906)