Edward_Hussey-Montagu,_1st_Earl_of_Beaulieu

Edward Hussey-Montagu, 1st Earl Beaulieu

Edward Hussey-Montagu, 1st Earl Beaulieu

British politician (1721–1802)

Edward Hussey-Montagu, 1st Earl Beaulieu, KB (1721–1802), was a British politician. He was married to Isabella Montagu, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, a rich heiress.

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Birth and origins

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Edward was born in 1721, the son of James Hussey and his wife Catherine Parsons. His father's family was Old English, a cadet branch of the Husseys. The Husseys had come to Ireland in 1172, and became substantial landowners in County Meath[1] and County Kerry. The senior branch of the family held the title Baron Galtrim, although this appears to have been an Irish feudal barony rather than a peerage and did not entitle its holder to sit in the Irish House of Lords. His mother was a daughter of Richard Parsons, 1st Viscount Rosse.

Marriage and children

In 1743, Hussey married Isabella Montagu, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, a rich heiress, first daughter and co-heiress of the 2nd Duke of Montagu and Lady Mary née Churchill (a daughter of the 1st Duke of Marlborough).[2] In 1749, he legally changed his surname to Hussey-Montagu.[3]

Edward and Isabella had two children:

  1. Isabella Hussey-Montagu (1750–1772)
  2. John (1747–1787), MP 1772–1787, styled Baron Montagu[4]

Both children predeceased their parents and died without descendants. In 1753 he was made a Knight Companion of the Bath.[5]

Hussey had one child from Martha Howel, a housemaid in the service of Lord Beaulieu:

  • Elizabeth Hussey, 1780–1865, "described or alleged to be his natural daughter" (600 descendants in October 2012, mainly in France).

MP

From 1758 to 1762, he was Member of Parliament for Tiverton and a Whig.

Earl of Beaulieu

On his retirement from parliament, Hussey was on 11 May 1762, raised to the peerage as Baron Beaulieu, of Beaulieu in the Hampshire (called the County of Southampton from 1889 to 1959),[6][7] and later advanced to Earl Beaulieu in 1784,[8] both in the peerage of Ireland.

Death

Beaulieu, as he now was, died on 25 November 1802 in Dover Street (off Piccadilly), London. As his only son had predeceased him in 1787, his titles became extinct. He was buried on 14 December that year at Warkton, Northamptonshire.

Citations and sources

Citations

  1. [1]
    Lodge 1789, p. 45, 2nd note. "Sir Hugh Hussey, who came into Ireland 17 Henry II. married the sister of Theobald Fitz-Walter, the first Butler of Ireland, and died seized of large possessions in the county of Meath from the grant of Hugh de Lacie;"
  2. [2]
    Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999.
  3. [3]
    Malcomson 2006, p. 102. "Hussey's wife, whom he married 1743, was the already-mentioned Isabella, daughter and ultimately (1749) co-heiress of the 2nd Duke of Montagu, and childless widow of her kinsman the 2nd Duke of Manchester."
  4. [4]
    Cokayne 1912, p. 59, line 1. "John Hussey-Montagu, styled lord Monyagu, only s. [son] and h. ap. [heir apparent], was b. [born] 18 Jan. 1746/7; M.P. for Windsor from 1772 til his death. He d. unm. [died unmarriewd] and v.p. [while his father was alive], 25 June 1787."
  5. [5]
    Shaw 1906, p. 170. "1753, Aug. 27. Edward Hussey-Montague, afterwards earl of Beaulieu. Installed Dec. 27."
  6. [6]
    "Local Government Act 1958: Section 59: Change of Name of County". The London Gazette. 20 February 1959. p. 1241. Archived from the original on 7 May 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  7. [7]
    Cokayne 1912, p. 58, line 18. "On 11 May 1762, he was cr. [created] Baron Beaulieu of Beaulieu, co. Southampton, with re. [remainder] to the heirs male of his body by Isabella, duchess dowager of Manchester, 1st daughter of John, Duke of Montagu, decd [deceased]."
  8. [8]
    Cokayne 1912, p. 58, line 21. "On 8 July 1784, he was cr. [created] Earl of Beaulieu."

Sources

  • National Archives File Ref : PROB 37/80 Prerogative court of Canterbury, Cause Papers.
  • The House of Commons, 1754–1790, Volume 2 / Lewis Namier, John Brooke pp 664–5.
  • Parliamentary Archives, Houses of Parliament, London.
  • The Gentleman's Magazine 1802, p 1167.
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