Edward Hussey-Montagu, 1st Earl Beaulieu

Edward Hussey
Earl of 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.

Citations and sources

Sources

• Cokayne, George Edward (1912). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. II (2nd ed.). London: St Catherine Press. OCLC 228661424. – Bass to Canning (for Beaulieu)
• Lodge, John (1789). Archdall, Mervyn (ed.). The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. Vol. VII. Dublin: James Moore. OCLC 264906028. – Barons (for Hussey)
• Malcomson, Anthony P. W. (2006). In Pursuit of a Heiress. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation. ISBN 978-1-903688-65-6.
• Shaw, William A. (1906). The Knights of England. Vol. I. London: Sherratt & Hughes. – Knights of orders of chivalry

• 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.