William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp
- William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp
William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp (3 July 1903 – 3 January 1979) was a politician in the United Kingdom.
Standing as a Liberal, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for East Norfolk at the 1929 general election. When the Liberal Party split over participation in Ramsay MacDonald's National Government, he joined the breakaway National Liberal grouping which later merged with the Conservative Party. While an MP he was known by his courtesy title of Viscount Elmley.
He was re-elected as a National liberal at the 1931 and 1935 general elections, and succeeded to the peerage in 1938 as the 8th Earl Beauchamp. On his death in 1979, the peerage became extinct.
Marriage
On 16 June 1936, Beauchamp married Else Schiwe (1895-1989), daughter of Viggo Schiwe and former wife of Peter Christian Blicher Dornonville de la Cour. By this marriage, Beauchamp had no issue of his own but did have a stepdaughter, Agnete Regitze Dornonville de la Cour (born 1916).
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At one time William Lygon, Viscount Elmley lived in the disused Winterton Lighthouse which is in Winterton on Sea, a village in his Constituency
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