George Child Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey
The Earl of Jersey | |
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Born | George Child Villiers 2 June 1873 |
Died | 31 December 1923 | (aged 50)
Nationality | British |
Spouse |
Lady Cynthia Needham
(m. 1908) |
Children | George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey Lady Joan Colville Mansel Child Villiers Lady Ann Elliot |
Parent(s) | Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey Margaret Leigh |
George Henry Robert Child Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey DL (2 June 1873 – 31 December 1923), was a British peer and Conservative politician from the Villiers family.[1]
Villiers was the son of Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey,[2] and the Honourable Margaret Elizabeth, daughter of William Henry Leigh, 2nd Baron Leigh.
Public life
[edit]Villiers was educated at Eton College and at New College, Oxford. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1915 and served briefly as a Lord-in-waiting under David Lloyd George between January and August 1919. He was a Justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant in Oxfordshire and an alderman and vice chairman for Oxfordshire County Council and a high steward for the city of Oxford. He also served as a J.P. and an alderman for Middlesex. Lord Jersey sold the Child & Co bank, part of the family's inheritance since the 5th Earl married into the Child family, to Glyn, Mills & Co. Bank in 1923.[1] He was a member of the Ancient Order of Druids from 1905.[3]
Family
[edit]Lord Jersey married Lady Cynthia Almina Constance Mary Needham, daughter of Francis Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey, and Ellen Constance Baldock, on 8 October 1908. They had four children:[1]
- George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey (1910 – 1998).
- Lady Joan Child Villiers (1911–2010), married David Colville, (who died 1986) grandson of Charles Colville, 1st Viscount Colville of Culross.
- Hon. (Edward) Mansel Child Villiers (3 May 1913 – 9 March 1980), married twice (firstly 1934, diss. 1940 to Barbara Mary Frampton and secondly 1946, diss. 1971 to Princess Maria Gloria Pignatelli Aragona Cortez.
- Lady Ann Child Villiers (1916 – 2006), married (1937) Major Alexander Henry Elliot (d. 1986).
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c (Hesilrige 1921, p. 508)
- ^ "George Henry Robert Child-Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey". geni.com.
- ^ Western Gazette, 25 August 1905
References
[edit]- Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921). Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy. 160A, Fleet street, London, UK: Dean & Son. p. 508.
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- 1873 births
- 1923 deaths
- 19th-century English nobility
- 20th-century English nobility
- Earls of Jersey
- Villiers family
- Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers
- Deputy lieutenants of Oxfordshire
- Earls in the Jacobite peerage
- Members of Middlesex County Council
- Members of the Ancient Order of Druids
- Viscounts Grandison
- Peerage of England earl stubs