William Whitehead Hicks-Beach
- William Whitehead Hicks-Beach
Major William Whitehead Hicks-Beach (23 March 1907 – 1 January 1975) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheltenham from 1950 to 1964, and also an Alderman of Cheltenham Borough Council.
He was a relative of the Earls St Aldwyn. He married Diana (née Hoare) (1911–2002), daughter of Christopher Gurney Hoare, on 12 September 1939, and they had two daughters, Elizabeth Hinson and Rosemary Naylor, and one son, Mark Hicks Beach (1943–1988).
He is buried in the The Blessed Virgin St Mary's Churchyard, at Great Witcombe in Gloucestershire. [ [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/GLS/GreatWitcombe/MIs.html Some Memorial Inscriptions, Great Witcombe, Gloucestershire ] ]
A road on the Hesters Way council estate in Cheltenham is named for him.
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* [http://www.rootsandleaves.com/family/Burke%27s/SAINT%20ALDWYN.htm Burke's Peerage: Earl Saint Aldwyn entry] on a private website. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
* [http://www.kittybrewster.com/ancestry/stratton.htm descent of William Whitehead Hicks-Beach, from the Stratton genealogy] on the Arbuthnot website. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
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