Lygon Collection

Lygon Arms, Broadway, Worcestershire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Winston Churchill at St James's Palace
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) attending the first court of King George V at St James's Palace. Churchill had been appointed Home Secretary earlier in the year. Date: 1910

Lady Mary Lygon, studio portrait in veiled hat. With description, The latest portrait of Lady Mary Lygon, the third daughter of the Earl and Countess of Beauchamp

The Lygon Arms, Broadway by W.W. Quatremain

British High society personalities at the Ascot Races, 1927 - Lord D Abernon, Lady Cranborne, Lady Lettice Lygon, Hon George Ward, the Duke of Portland, Lady Algernon Gordon Lennox, Captain Lucas

Lady Sibell Lygon by Madame Yevonde
Lady Sibell Lygon (1907 - 2005), English socialite, part of the Bright Young Things. Daughter of the 7th Earl Beauchamp, she was the eldest of the four Lygon sisters

Lady Lettice Lygon by Olive Snell
Lady Lettice Cotterell (nÚÑáLygon) (1906-1973), Wife of Sir Richard Charles Geers Cotterell, 5th Bt; daughter of 7th Earl Beauchamp. Lygon family possible inspiration for Waughs Brideshead Revisited

Four costumes for the Eclipse Ball, a pageant ball to take place on 17 December at the Park Lane Hotel, London, in aid of St Johns Hospital, Lewisham

Lady Mary Lygon and Viscountess Castlerosse at the Westminster Hospital Ball and Cotillon at the Dorchester Hotel in June 1931. Date: 1939

The Hon. Richard Lygon, the son of Earl Beauchamp, pictured in goal in a match against Malvern having signed amateur forms to play for Worcester City. Date: 1937

At a Bright Young Party
Cartoon showing some young personalities of the time at a party: Rosemary Hope-Vere, Oliver Messel, Philip Kindersley, Lord Donegall, Sir Anthony Weldon, Lady Seafield, Hon

Lady Beauchamp and the Lygon Sisters
Lady Beauchamp, formerly Lady Lettice Grosvenor, with her three eldest daughters, Lettice (born 1906), Sybil (born 1907) and Mary (the baby in her arms, born 1910)

William Lygon, Vanity Fair, Spy
WILLIAM LYGON, 7th Earl BEAUCHAMP (1872-1938), styled Viscount Elmley until 1891. British Liberal politician and Governor of New South Wales between 1899 and 1901

Lady Lettice Lygon
Lady Lettice Cotterell (n饠 Lygon) (1906-1973), Wife of Sir Richard Charles Geers Cotterell, 5th Bt; daughter of 7th Earl Beauchamp

Tatler cover - Lady Mary Lygon by Madame Yevonde
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of Lady Mary Lygon, sixth child of the 7th Earl of Beauchamp and Lady Lettice Grosvenor, a granddaughter of the 1st Duke of Westminster

Sketch cover - the Lygon sisters
Front cover of The Sketch featuring a photograph of Lady Lettice Lygon flanked by her sisters, Sibell (left) and Mary (right)

William Earl Beauchamp
WILLIAM LYGON first earl BEAUCHAMP The Dictionary of Biography can find nothing to say of him except that he was a nobleman domiciled in Worcestershire. Date: 1747 - 1816

Henry Beauchamp Lygon, 4th Earl Beauchamp (1784 - 1863), Army officer and politician. Date: 1859

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