Sir Michael Hicks Hicks-Beach, 8th Baronet DL (25 October 1809 – 22 November 1854) was a British Conservative Party MP and High Sheriff. He was appointed

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for 1840 and then returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for East Gloucestershire from January 1854 until his death in November of the same year. He was commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel of the

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in 1844 and commanded it as Lt-Col Commandant from 1852 until his death.''Army List'', various dates. Hicks-Beach married Harriett Vittoria Stratton, daughter of John Stratton, in 1832. He died in November 1854, aged 45, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son

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, who became a prominent

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politician and was created

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in 1915. Hicks-Beach's younger son William Frederick Hicks-Beach was also an MP, as was his son-in-law Sir John Dillwyn-Llewelyn, 1st Baronet, husband of his daughter Caroline Julia Hicks-Beach. Lady Hicks-Beach died at

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, the residence of her Dillwyn-Llewelyn son-in-law, on 20 January 1900.

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(revised by Capt Hon M.H. Hicks-Beach & Maj B.N. Spraggett), ''The Royal North Gloucester Militia'', 2nd Edn, Cirencester: Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard Printing Works, 1914. *Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, *

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