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William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey, 6th Viscount Grandison, (died 28 August 1769) was an English peer and politician from the Villiers family.
He was the son of
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William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey, 6th Viscount Grandison, (died 28 August 1769) was an English peer and politician from the Villiers family.
Life
He was the son of William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey
William Villers, 2nd Earl of Jersey (c. 1682 – 13 July 1721), known as Viscount Villiers from 1697 to 1711, was an English peer and politician from the Villiers family.
Jersey was the son of Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, and his wife ...
.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 2096. Among other achievements, Villiers was a founding Governor of the Foundling Hospital
The Foundling Hospital in London, England, was founded in 1739 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram. It was a children's home established for the "education and maintenance of exposed and deserted young children." The word "hospital" w ...
, a charity which received its royal charter on 17 October 1739 to operate an orphanage for abandoned children in London.
On 23 June 1733, he married Anne Russell, Dowager Duchess of Bedford (c. 1704/1709 – 1762). She was the daughter of Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgwater, and widow of Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford. They had two sons, but only one survived them:
*Frederick William Villiers, Viscount Villiers (25 March 1734 – before 11 October 1742)
* George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey (1735–1805)
He commissioned the building of the previous Middleton Park, in Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire.
References
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