BEAUCHAMP 41 BARONY. I. Edward Seymour, yr. s. (eldest s. by 2nd wife) of Edward, Duke of Somerset, Earl of Hertford and 1- 1559- Viscount Beauchamp, was, on 13 Jan. 1 558/9, (") cr. BARON BEAUCHAMP, and Earl of Hertford, all of which honours became extinct in 1750. See " Hertford," Earldom, cr. 1559, extinct i-] ^o. BEAUCHAMP i.e. " MoNCK OF Potheridge, Beauchamp and Teyes," Barony {Monck). See "Albemarle," Dukedom, cr. 1660 ; extinct 1688. BEAUCHAMP VISCOUNTCY. I. Francis (Seymour-Conway), Lord Conway, descended in the male line from Edward Seymour, ^75°- Viscount Beauchamp (so cr. 1536, and, subsequently. Earl of Hertford and Duke of Somerset, as above), was on 3 Aug. 1750 cr. VISCOUNT BEAUCHAMP and Earl of Hertford, with a spec, rem. See "Hertford," Earldom, cr. il^o. BEAUCHAMP EARLDOM. I. William Lygon, of Madresfield Court, co. Wor- . Q cester, only s. and h. of Reginald Lygon,() formerly •>' Pyndar, of the same, by Susanna, da. of William Hanmer, of Bettisfield, co. Flint, and Esther, da. of Humphrey Jennens, was b. 25 July 1747; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 2 May 1764; sue. his father 25 Dec. 1788, was M.P.('=) for Worcestershire, 1775 to 1806, and having been, since 1783, a steady supporter of Pitt, was en, 26 Feb. 1 806, BARON BEAUCHAMP OF POWYK, co. Worcester,(i) and, on i Dec. 18 15, was cr. VISCOUNT ELMLEY and EARL BEAUCHAMP.(^) He m., (^) It is generally said that the titles conferred 5 June 1536 and 13 Jan. 1559 were " Beauchamp o/'//«f/!<', CO. Somerset," but in neither instance are the words "of Hache" given in the patent. See Creations, 1483-1646, in App., 47th Rep. of the Dep. Keeper P.R. C") This Reginald was s. and h. of Reginald Pyndar, of Kempley, co. Gloucester, by Margaret, da. (whose issue was h.) of William Lygon, of Madresfield, co. Worcester, a descendant of Richard Lygon, who m. Anne, yr. da. and coh. of Richard (Beau- champ), Lord Beauchamp of Powick. See note "e," page 47. He was a Whig till 1783. V.G. {^) See under " Beauchamp of Powick." (*) According to the Creevy papers, "his wife gave McMahon ^^10,000 for getting him advanced from a Baron to an Earl." V.G. As to the omission of the word "of" in the title of an Earldom, see note sub Charles, Earl Cadogan [1800]. 7
