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
Villiers family
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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
Member of Parliament
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for
Rochester
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from 1830 to 1831, for
Minehead
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from 1831 from 1832, for
Honiton
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from 1832 to 1835, for
Weymouth & Melcome Regis from 1837 to 1842 and for
Cirencester
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from 1844 to 1852.
He served as a Lord-in-waiting to
the Duchess of Cambridge at the 1838
coronation of Queen Victoria
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.
Marriage and issue
Lord Jersey married Julia Peel (d. 1893), daughter of the Prime Minister,
Sir Robert Peel
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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
Sir George Orby Wombwell, 4th Baronet (23 November 1832 – 16 October 1913) was a British baronet.
Early life
Wombwell was born on 23 November 1832. He was the son of Sir George Wombwell, 3rd Baronet and educated at Eton College and Royal Mil ...
, 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
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(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
tuberculosis
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three weeks later, in
Brighton
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Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
on 24 October 1859,
and was buried in
Middleton Stoney
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,
Oxfordshire
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.
Lady Jersey married Charles Brandling on 12 September 1865.
See also
*
Jersey Street (Boston), which is named in honour of Villiers
Notes
References
External links
*
Alfred Charles Whitman
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Life
The younges ...
''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
1808 births
1859 deaths
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19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
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George Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey
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 Villiers family.
Life
Villiers was born on 4 April 1808 in London, t ...
Earls in the Jacobite peerage
Viscounts Grandison
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