Michael Henry Hicks Beach, 3rd Earl St Aldwyn (born 7 February 1950) is a British peer, baronet, and businessman. He was a member of the

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from 1992 to 1999. The eldest of the three sons of

Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn Michael John Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn (9 October 191229 January 1992) was a British Conservative politician. He achieved the distinction of serving in the governments of five different prime ministers. Background and education St Aldwyn ...

, and his wife Diana Mary Christian Mills, he was educated at

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and

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. He succeeded his father as

Earl St Aldwyn Earl St Aldwyn, of Coln St Aldwyn in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1915 for the prominent Conservative politician Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Viscount St Aldwyn, known from 1854 to ...

and Viscount Quenington in 1992 and is also 11th Baronet, of

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, in the

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, a title created for his ancestor Sir William Hicks in 1619. Since 1994 he has been managing director of International Fund Marketing (UK) Ltd.''

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'' (2019)
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/ref> In 1982, he married firstly Gilda Maria, daughter of João Adolfo Pinto da Cunha Saavedra, of

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. In 2005 he married secondly Mrs Louise Wigan, Mostyn. With his first wife he has two daughters''

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'', vol. 3 (2003), p. 3466 *Lady Atalanta Maria Hicks-Beach (born 1983) *Lady Aurora Ursula Hicks-Beach (born 1988) The

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to the peerages is St Aldwyn’s younger brother David Seymour Hicks-Beach (born 1955), who was

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between 1969 and 1972 and is now the owner of The Bones Dogalogue, a mail order firm for dogs. In 1993 he married Katrina Louise Susannah Henriques and has a daughter and a son.

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