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George Augustus Frederick Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey (4 April 1808 – 24 October 1859), styled Viscount Villiers until 1859, was an English peer and politician from the
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Life

Villiers was born on 4 April 1808 in London, the son of
George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, GCH, PC (19 August 1773 – 3 October 1859), previously George Villiers and styled Viscount Villiers until 1805, was a British courtier and Conservative politician from the Villiers family. He added ...
, by Lady Sarah Fane. He sat as
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from 1830 to 1831, for
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from 1831 from 1832, for
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from 1832 to 1835, for Weymouth & Melcome Regis from 1837 to 1842 and for
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from 1844 to 1852. He served as a Lord-in-waiting to
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at the 1838
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Marriage and issue

Lord Jersey married Julia Peel (d. 1893), daughter of the Prime Minister,
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, on 12 July 1841. They had three children: * Julia Sarah Alice Child Villiers (d. 1921); she married Sir George Orby Wombwell, 4th Baronet, on 3 September 1861 and had issue * Caroline Anne Child-Villiers; she married William Henry Philips Jenkins on 4 April 1872 * Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey (1845–1915). He succeeded in the earldom on the death of his father on 3 October 1859 but only held the title until his own death of
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three weeks later, in Brighton on 24 October 1859, and was buried in
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, Oxfordshire. Lady Jersey married Charles Brandling on 12 September 1865.


See also

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Jersey Street (Boston) Jersey Street is a street in the Fenway–Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, part of a scheme of alphabetical street names in Back Bay. It lies parallel to Ipswich Street and Kilmarnock Street, and runs from Brookline Avenue to Par ...
, which is named in honour of Villiers


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* Alfred Charles Whitman
''Samuel Cousins' Nineteenth Century Mezzotinters section: V. The lettering of title slightly strengthened. B.M. 125. PEEL, MISS JULIA. After Sir T. Lawrence.''The Letters of Richard Cobden'': 1815-1847
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