Major the Hon. Henry Lygon (10 April 1884 – 23 February 1936) was a Conservative Party politician.
He was the fourth son of the 6th Earl Beauchamp. Educated at Eton and Oxford. From 1907-19 he sat as a Municipal Reform Party member of the London County Council representing Finsbury, Holborn and was the party's whip on the council. He served as chairman of Fire Brigade Committee of the County Council from 1909-11.
During the First World War he served with the Suffolk Yeomanry, later transferring to the Royal Flying Corps. Following a serious balloon accident he finished the war an intelligence officer in Paris and Rome.
Despite an increasing paralysis caused by his wartime accident, he was active as a right wing and protectionist member of the Conservative Party. He made four attempts to win parliamentary seats at Nottingham West, Peterborough, Newton in Lancashire and Worcester but was defeated on each occasion.
In 1928 he became the licensee of the Hand and Shears, a public house in Smithfield, as part of his work with the Association for the Promotion of Restaurants and Public-Houses in Poor Districts.
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Article in Who’s Who.
Mentioned Rebel on the Right: Henry Page Croft and the Crisis of British Conservatism, by Larry L. Witherell, p 216.
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