RARE “4th Earl Beauchamp" Henry Lygon Signed Free Frank Dated 1838 for Sale

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RARE “4th Earl Beauchamp" Henry Lygon Signed Free Frank Dated 1838 For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "4th Earl Beauchamp" Henry Lygon Hand Signed Free Frank Dated 1838.

Honourable Henry Lygon from 1806 until 1853, was a British Army

officer and politician. Beauchamp was the third son of William Lygon, 1st Earl

Beauchamp, by his wife Catharine, the only daughter of James Denn. A

younger brother was Edward Pyndar Lygon, who

also became a General. Beauchamp was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford and

entered the British Army in 1803 as a cornet in the 13th Dragoons. Made a captain in the 16th Light Dragoons,

Beauchamp served with the regiment during the Peninsular War from 1809 until its end in 1814. He took part in the First Battle of Porto and

then in the Battle of Talavera. After

the Battle of the Côa in

1810, he was wounded in the Battle of Bussaco. Beauchamp was promoted to major in

the 1st Life Guards in

1815, to major-general in 1837 and received the colonelcy of the 10th Royal Hussars for

life in 1843. Three years later he became lieutenant-general and finally

general in 1853. Apart from his military career Beauchamp also entered

the British House of Commons in

1816, sitting as Member of Parliament for Worcestershire until

1831. He represented the county also as a Deputy Lieutenant. Beauchamp was returned to the House for the

newly established constituency Worcestershire West in 1832, holding the seat until 1853.

In that year he succeeded his elder brother John in the earldom and took his seat in the House of Lords.

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