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William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, was born on February 20, 1872, in London, England.

He was a British Liberal politician. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, University of Oxford. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1891 and served as mayor of Worcester between 1895 and 1896. He also served as the 20th Governor of New South Wales, Australia, from 1899 to 1901. In 1902, Beauchamp joined the Liberal Party and was appointed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms in 1906. In 1907, he became Lord Steward of the Household and, in 1910, the First Commissioner of Works, a position he held until 1914. He was also the leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords between 1924 and 1931. While his homosexuality was widely known, it was finally exposed in 1931 by his brother-in-law, the Duke of Westminster. Beauchamp was made an offer to separate from his wife Lettice without a formal divorce and then leave the country. He refused, and, shortly afterwards, Countess Beauchamp obtained a divorce. Beauchamp resigned all his offices except that of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and went into exile on the Continent to avoid imprisonment. He received the honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) from the University of Glasgow in 1901.

In 1902, he married Lady Lettice Mary Elizabeth Grosvenor (1876–1936) and divorced in 1931. He died on November 15, 1938, at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, New York City, New York.

Rev. William Martin Beauchamp was born on March 25, 1830, in Coldenham, Orange County, New York.

He was an American ethnologist and Episcopal clergyman. He received his education at Skaneateles Academy until 1845. He graduated from the DeLancey Divinity School, and in 1886, he received a degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from Hobart College, Geneva, New York. He was ordained into the priesthood of the Episcopalian Church in 1863 and spent most of his career at Grace Church in Baldwinsville, New York (1865-1900). He then moved to Syracuse where he researched and wrote on the Iroquois. In 1893, he published “Indian Names of New York “ and in 1905, "History of the New York Iroquois, now Commonly Called the Six Nations". He was president of the Onondaga Academy of Science in 1901 and 1902 and vice president of the Onondaga Historical Association from 1909 until 1919. The Beauchamp Branch of the Onondaga County Public Library in Syracuse is named for him.

He died on December 13, 1925, in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York.

Beaudry was a French Canadian author, composer, pianist and record producer who played a determining role in the early initiatives of the recording industry in Québec. He worked for his father’s music store and then with the Starr Sales Company.

In 1915, the Columbia Gramophone Company of New York requested that Beaudry put them into contact with Québécois artists, hoping to obtain French language music for their New England francophone customers. Beaudry did and more than a dozen artists recorded with Columbia. He also established his initial contacts with the French market.

In 1917 Beaudry participated in setting up the Canadian Phonograph Supply Company to take advantage of the approaching end of the patents for lateral-cut recording. This prompted the Starr Piano Company of Richmond, Indiana which produced vertical-cut records to establish itself in Canada and to look at lateral-cut recording. The Starr Company of Canada was thus founded and Beaudry became vice president and general manager.

Beaudry wanted to increase the Canadian and francophone presence in a market that until then had been monopolized by American firms. He introduced the Starr series that presented thousands of recordings of popular French-speaking artists and obtained the distribution rights for several recordings by French music hall artists. Almost all the great names of his time recorded for Starr.

The American chansonnette experienced impressive growth after the First World War and to enable local artists to profit from Canadian and Québec audience's craze for this music, Beaudry recorded more than 150 of his French adaptations of American hits by Starr and His Master's Voice artists. He composed original songs of which more than 75 were recorded, a number of them big hits. As a producer, he was a pillar of the record industry during the 1920s, combining the folk style of artists like Ovila Légaré and American and French-inspired popular songs of such artists as Hector Pellerin.

He also established the Radio Music Publisher/Éditions Radio, a sheet music company set up in Starr's Montréal office. He died suddenly aged 50.