Fourth son of 6th Earl Beauchamp. 1907-19 Conservative member of LCC for Finsbury. Chairman of Fire Brigade Committee of LCC 1909-11. Badly injured in a balloon accident while serving in WW1 but continued to be active in politics. Strangely: "1928 he became the licensee of the Hand and Shears, a public house in Smithfield, as part of his work with the Association for the Promotion of Restaurants and Public-Houses in Poor Districts."
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Henry Lygon
This station was opened on the 23rd day of June 1910 by the Hon. Henry Lygon,...
Lieutenant in the 1/4th (Territorial) Battalion of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Killed in action, aged 21. He is buried in plot B. 72 at the Authuile Military cemetery on the Somme. Frank ...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
The Highland regiment, the Black Watch, had been marched down from Scotland to Finchley where, hearing rumours that they were to be sent to fight in America, about 100 soldiers went absent without ...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
