Dorothy Granger
Dorothy Karolyn Granger( November 21, 1911 – January 4, 1995) was an American actress best known for her roles in short subject comedies in Hollywood.
She was also the stepmother of film maker and former record producer Anthony J. Hilder.
Mark Dent-Brocklehurst
Geoffrey Mark Dent- Brocklehurst( 25 April 1932 – 9 September 1972) was a British stockbroker and the heir to Sudeley Castle.
He was the son of Major John Henry Dent- Brocklehurst and his wife, Mary(" née" Morrison).
Via his paternal grandmother, Marion Lascelles, he is a descendant of Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood.
Thus he was a third cousin of George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood.
Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn, whose mother was Marjorie Brocklehurst, was his first cousin.
Dent- Brocklehurst died suddenly from a heart attack in 1972, aged 40.
The castle passed to his wife, Mary Elizabeth(" née" Chipps), and their two children, Henry and Mollie.
His wife remarried Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe, in 1979.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet
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 High Sheriff of Gloucestershire 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.
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 Michael, who became a prominent Conservative politician and was created Earl St Aldwyn in 1915.
Hicks-Beach's younger son William Frederick Hicks-Beach was also an MP, as was his son-in-law Sir John Dillwyn-Llewellyn,
1st Baronet, husband of his daughter
Caroline Julia Hicks-Beach.
Lady Hicks-Beach died at Penllergaer, the residence of her Dillwyn-Llewellyn son-in-law, on 20 January 1900.
Irene Baker
Edith Irene Bailey Baker( November 17, 1901 – April 2, 1994) was an American politician and a United States Representative from Tennessee.
She was the widow of Howard Baker Sr. and the stepmother of Howard Baker Jr.
Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn
Michael John Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn
( 9 October 1912 – 29 January 1992) was a British Conservative politician.
He achieved the distinction of serving in the governments of five different Prime Ministers.
Michael Hicks-Beach (1760–1830)
Michael Hicks- Beach( 1760 –1830) was the member of Parliament for the constituency of Cirencester for the parliaments of 1794 to 1818.
He was the son of Sir Howe Hicks, 6th Baronet, and the brother of Sir William Hicks, 7th Baronet.
His elder son Michael Beach Hicks- Beach was the father of Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet, and his younger son William Beach was also an MP.
William Hicks-Beach (Tewkesbury MP)
William Frederick Hicks Beach JP (16 July 1841 – 7 September 1923) was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Tewkesbury from 1916 to 1918, having been returned, aged 74, at a by-election in succession to his nephew, Viscount Quenington, who had been killed in action during the First World War.
He was born in Witcombe Park, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, the younger son of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, 8th Baronet, and his wife Harriett Vittoria (née Stratton).
Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, was his elder brother.
He had an active local public life as a Justice of the Peace of the county of Gloucestershire from 1879, serving eight years as chairman of the Cheltenham bench, and was by 1900 an alderman of Gloucestershire County Council, on which he served as chairman of its Public Health Committee.
He was chairman of a Rural District Council for 46 years, and of Gloucester Board of Diocesan Finance.
He was made a freeman of the borough of Cheltenham in 1922.
He was for eight years master of the Cotswold Hounds.
He married firstly, on 5 July 1865 Elizabeth Caroline Tyrwhitt-Drake (1841–22 January 1901), daughter of Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake of Shardeloes, by whom he had 5 sons and 3 daughters.
His second wife, whom he married on 25 November 1903, was Emily Susan Christian (1866–1958), daughter of Admiral Henry Christian.
He retired from parliament at the 1918 general election and died in 1923 aged 82.
He was heir-presumptive to the Hicks-Beach baronetcy but did not live to succeed to the title.
Jane Wigham
Jane Wigham( née Smeal; 1801–1888) was a leading Scottish abolitionist.
She was the stepmother of Eliza Wigham and the second wife of John Wigham.
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn
Michael Edward Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, (23 October 1837 – 30 April 1916), known as Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt, from 1854 to 1906 and subsequently as The Viscount St Aldwyn to 1915, was a British Conservative politician.
Known as "Black Michael", he notably served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1885 to 1886 and again from 1895 to 1902 and also led the Conservative Party in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886.
Due to the length of his service, he was Father of the House from 1901 to 1906, when he took his peerage.
William Brooks, 2nd Baron Crawshaw
William Brooks, 2nd Baron Crawshaw DL( 16 October 1853 – 19 January 1929) was a British peer.
He was the eldest son of Thomas Brooks, 1st Baron Crawshaw and married Mary Ethel Hicks- Beach( 1853- 1 October 1914) on 12 October 1882 daughter of Sir Michael Hicks Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet( 1809 – 1854).
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Question: Who is the mother of Michael Hicks Beach, 1St Earl St Aldwyn?
Answer: Harriett Vittoria Stratton