Mrs Emily Beech
(1823-1913)

Volume 1, page 160, sitting number 843.

Born on 18 August 1823, Emily Charlotte Madocks was the fourth of the five daughters of John Edward Madocks of Iw and Glanywern, the Member of Parliament for the Denbigh Boroughs. On 23 December 1843 at Llandyrnog in Denbighshire she married James Beech of Brandon Lodge, Warwickshire and Shawe House, Staffordshire.

She died on 19 November 1913. Two days later an obituary appeared in the Leamington Spa Courier (21 November 1913): 'On Wednesday the death occurred in London of Mrs Emily Charlotte Beech, widow of Mr James Beech, and mother of Colonel E.J. Beech, of Brandon Hall, Warwickshire. Mrs Beech, who was 90 years of age, was the fourth daughter of the late Mr John Madocks, M.P., of Glanywern Hall, Denbigh, her mother being a daughter of Mr Abraham Wildey Robarts, M.P., of Putney Heath, Surrey. She married Mr James Beech in 1843, and for the past thirty years had been a widow. In the parish of Brandon she took a deep and practical interest in the well-being of the parishioners, and was a generous supporter of scholastic and other movements. Her husband and son have held the position of High Sheriff of Warwickshire, and her eldest brother had a similar position in Denbigh in 1856. Mrs Beech was the mother of five sons and one daughter, and the latter is the wife of the Hon. George Campbell, second son of the first Lord Napier of Magdala, and twin brother of the present peer.'