Michael Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington

Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington (19 January 1877 – 23 April 1916) was a British politician.

Hicks-Beach fought in the First World War as a captain with the 1/1st Royal Gloucestershire Hussars and died, aged 39, on 23 April 1916 as a result of wounds received at Katia, Egypt.

[2][3] Viscount Quenington is one of 19 MPs who fell in the war who are commemorated by heraldic shields in the Commons Chamber.

[4] A further act of commemoration came with the unveiling in 1932 of a manuscript-style illuminated book of remembrance for the House of Commons, which includes a short biographical account of the life and death of Viscount Quenington.

[5][6] From 1915, when his father was created 1st Earl St Aldwyn, Hicks-Beach held the courtesy title of Viscount Quenington.

Viscount Quenington from the Roll of Honour published in The Illustrated London News on 6 May 1916.
Cover of memorial service sheet, 4 May 1916, for Lord St. Aldwyn (1837–1916) & Viscount Quenington (1877–1916).
Hicks-Beach named on the Freemasons' War Memorial at Gloucester Cathedral