Thomas Villiers, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (25 December 1753 – 7 March 1824), known as Lord Hyde from 1776 to 1786, was a British peer and
Tory
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from the
Villiers family
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.
Life
Clarendon was the eldest son of
Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon
Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon, PC (1709 – 11 December 1786) was a British politician and diplomat from the Villiers family.
Clarendon was the second son of William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey, and his wife Judith Herne, daughter of ...
and his wife
Lady Charlotte Capell, and was educated at
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and
St John's College, Cambridge.
He was elected to the
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for
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in 1774, a seat he held until 1780. He later represented
Helston
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between 1781 and 1786, when he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the
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.
He served as a
Cornet in the
Western Troop, Hertfordshire Yeomanry, under the command of his younger brother
George
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, and when George resigned he was promoted to
Captain to command in his place.
[Sainsbury, p. 35.]
Lord Clarendon died in March 1824, aged 70. He never married and was succeeded in his titles by his younger brother
John Charles Villiers.
He lived at
The Grove, a country house near Watford, Hertfordshire.
Notes
References
* Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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* Lt-Col J.D. Sainsbury, ''The Hertfordshire Yeomanry: An Illustrated History 1794–1920'', Welwyn: Hart Books/Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Historical Trust, 1994, ISBN 0-948527-03-X,
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