George_Child-Villiers,_6th_Earl_of_Jersey
George Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey
English peer and politician
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.
Villiers was born on 4 April 1808 in London, the son of George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, by Lady Sarah Fane.[1][2][3]
He sat as Member of Parliament for Rochester from 1830 to 1831, for Minehead from 1831 from 1832, for Honiton from 1832 to 1835, for Weymouth & Melcome Regis from 1837 to 1842 and for Cirencester from 1844 to 1852.[1][2][4]
He served as a Lord-in-waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge at the 1838 coronation of Queen Victoria. [5]
Lord Jersey married Julia Peel (d. 1893), daughter of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, on 12 July 1841.[1][2] They had three children:[2][3]
- Julia Sarah Alice Child Villiers (d. 1921);[1][2] she married Sir George Orby Wombwell, 4th Baronet, on 3 September 1861 and had issue
- Caroline Anne Child-Villiers;[1][2] she married William Henry Philips Jenkins on 4 April 1872 [6]
- Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey (1845–1915).[1][2]
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 three weeks later,[7] in Brighton on 24 October 1859,[nb 1][2] and was buried in Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire.[1][2]
Lady Jersey married Charles Brandling on 12 September 1865.[8]
- Jersey Street (Boston), which is named in honour of Villiers[9][10]
- Deaths Dec 1859 Villiers George Augustus Frederick Brighton 2b 109
- "Death of the Earl of Jersey". The Times. No. 23446. Gale. 25 October 1859. p. 9. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- "Funeral of the Earl of Jersey". Berkshire Chronicle. British Newspaper Archive. 29 October 1859. p. 7 col.2. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- "Obituary of eminent persons: the Earl of Jersey". Illustrated London News. British Newspaper Archive. 29 October 1859. p. 18/424 col.3. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- "Key to Mr Leslie's picture of Queen Victoria receiving the Holy Sacrament at her Coronation". National Portrait Gallery.
- Lundy, Darryl. "p. 5281 § 52807". The Peerage.[unreliable source]
- "Jersey, Earls of" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 330.
- Lucas, Peter (8 May 2018). "Jersey Street has its own dark past". Boston Herald. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- Smith, Tovia (26 April 2018). "Boston Changes 'Yawkey Way' To 'Jersey Street' After Concerns Over Racist Legacy". NPR. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
Media related to George Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey at Wikimedia Commons
- 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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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Rochester 1830–1831 With: Ralph Bernal |
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Minehead 1831–1832 With: John Fownes Luttrell |
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Honiton 1832–1835 With: James Ruddell-Todd |
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 1837–1842 With: George William Hope |
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Cirencester 1844–1852 With: William Cripps 1844–1848 Joseph Randolph Mullings 1848–1852 |
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| Preceded by | Earl of Jersey 3–24 October 1859 |
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