William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp: Difference between revisions

'''William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KG|KCMG|CB|KStJ|PC}} (20 February 1872 – 14 November 1938), styled '''Viscount Elmley''' until 1891, was a British [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician. He was [[Governor of New South Wales]] between 1899 and 1901, a member of the [[Liberal Government 1905–1915|Liberal administrations]] of [[Henry Campbell-Bannerman|Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman]] and [[H. H. Asquith]] between 1905 and 1915, and leader of the Liberal Party in the [[House of Lords]] between 1924 and 1931. When political enemies threatened to make his [[homosexuality]] public, he resigned from office to go into exile. Lord Beauchamp is believedgenerally by someconsidered to be the model for the character Lord Marchmain in [[Evelyn Waugh]]'s novel ''[[Brideshead Revisited]]''.