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Edward Hussey
Earl of Beaulieu
Arms of Baron Beaulieu
His arms as 1st Baron Beaulieu
Reign 1784–1802
Died 25 November 1802
Dover Street, London
Spouse(s) Isabella Montagu
Issue
Detail
John Hussey-Montagu, & others
Father James Hussey
Mother Catherine Parsons

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.

Birth and origins

Family tree: Lord Beaulieu
Edward Hussey-Montagu with wife, parents, and other selected relatives.
George
Hamilton

d. 1676
Soldier
Frances
Jennings

c. 1647 – 1730
Beauty
Richard
Talbot
Earl
Tyrconnell

1630–1691
Richard
1st
Viscount
Rosse

1657–1703
Elizabeth
1667–1724
Richard
1st Earl
Rosse

d. 1741
James
Hussey

d. 1759
Catherine
Parsons

d. 1766
Richard
2nd Earl
1716–1764
1st Earl
Beaulieu

d. 1802
Isabella
Montagu

d. 1786
John
Lord Montagu

1747–1787)
d.v.p.*
Legend
XXX Subject of
the article
XXX Earls of
Beaulieu
XXX Viscounts &
earls of Rosse
XXX Earls of
Tyrconnell
d.v.p. = decessit vita patris (predeceased his father).

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 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). In 1749, he legally changed his surname to Hussey-Montagu.

Edward and Isabella had two children:

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

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

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), and later advanced to Earl Beaulieu in 1784, 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.

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