George Child Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Earl of Jersey
Honorific-Suffix:DL
Birth Name:George Child Villiers
Birth Date:2 June 1873
Nationality:British
Children:George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey
Lady Joan Colville
Mansel Child Villiers
Lady Ann Elliot
Parents: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.

Villiers was the son of Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey,[1] and the Honourable Margaret Elizabeth, daughter of William Henry Leigh, 2nd Baron Leigh.

Public life

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. He was a member of the Ancient Order of Druids from 1905.[2]

Family

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:

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: George Henry Robert Child-Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey. geni.com.
  2. Western Gazette, 25 August 1905