George Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey

George Augustus Frederick Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey (4 April 1808 – 24 October 1859), styled Viscount Villiers until 1859, was an English peer from the Villiers family.

Villiers was the son of George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey. 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 succeeded in the earldom on the death of his father on 3 October 1859 but only held the title until his own death three weeks later.

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)

Lady Jersey married Charles Brandling on 12 September 1865.

References

• Retrieved 5 September 2009: George Augustus Frederick Child-Villiers, 6th Earl of the Island of Jersey
• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
• 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

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Jersey

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Henry Dundas Ralph Bernal	Member of Parliament for Rochester 1830–1831 With: Ralph Bernal	Succeeded by John Mills Ralph Bernal
Preceded by John Fownes Luttrell William Edward Tomline	Member of Parliament for Minehead 1831–1832 With: John Fownes Luttrell	Constituency abolished
Preceded by Sir George Warrender Henry Baines Lott	Member of Parliament for Honiton 1832–1835 With: James Ruddell-Todd	Succeeded by Hugh Duncan Baillie Arthur Chichester
Preceded by Thomas Fowell Buxton William Wharton Burden	Member of Parliament for Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 1837–1842 With: George William Hope	Succeeded by Ralph Bernal William Dougal Christie
Preceded by William Cripps Thomas William Chester-Master	Member of Parliament for Cirencester 1844–1852 With: William Cripps 1844–1848 Joseph Randolph Mullings 1848–1852	Succeeded by Ashley George John Ponsonby Joseph Randolph Mullings
Peerage of England
Preceded by George Child Villiers	Earl of Jersey 3–24 October 1859	Succeeded by Victor Child Villiers
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by George Child Villiers	Viscount Grandison 3–24 October 1859	Succeeded by Victor Child Villiers