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,[1] and was by 1900[2] 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.[1]
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.[3] His second wife, whom he married on 25 November 1903, was Emily Susan Christian (1866–1958), daughter of Admiral Henry Christian.[4]
He retired from parliament at the 1918 general election and died in 1923 aged 82. He was heir-presumptive to the Hicks-Beach baronetcy[1] but did not live to succeed to the title.
Notes
^ abcWho Was Who, 1916-1928. A and C Black. 1947. p. 494.
^Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1900. Kelly's. p. 684.
