George Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey facts for kids
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.
Life
Villiers was born on 4 April 1808 in London, the son of George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, by Lady Sarah Fane.
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.
He served as a Lord-in-waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge at the 1838 coronation of Queen Victoria.
Marriage and issue
Lord Jersey married Julia Peel (d. 1893), daughter of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, on 12 July 1841. They had three children:
- Julia Sarah Alice Child Villiers (d. 1921); she married Sir George Orby Wombwell, 4th Baronet, on 3 September 1861 and had issue
- Caroline Anne Child-Villiers; she married William Henry Philips Jenkins on 4 April 1872
- Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey (1845–1915).
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, in Brighton on 24 October 1859, and was buried in Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire.
Lady Jersey married Charles Brandling on 12 September 1865.
See also
- Jersey Street (Boston), which is named in honour of Villiers
