Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Beach, Michael Hicks, Sir
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- 8th Baronet
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1809-1854
History
Michael Edward Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, known as Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt, from 1854-1906 and subsequently as The Viscount St Aldwyn to 1915, was a British Conservative politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1885 to 1886 and again from 1895 to 1902 and also led the Conservative Party in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886. Due to the length if his service, he was Father of the House from 1901 to 1906, when he took his peerage