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George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey,
George III
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He was the oldest surviving son of William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey, and his wife, the former Lady Anne Egerton, the daughter of Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, and widow of Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford.
Parliament
Between 1756 and his father's death in 1769, which took him into the
Privy Council on 11 July 1765 and served as Vice-Chamberlain
from 1765 to 1769.
On his elevation to the peerage in 1769, he was made a
Gentleman of the Bedchamber to George III (1769–1777) and served as Master of the Buckhounds (1782–1783) and in other court posts until 1800. Because of his courtly manners was called the "Prince of Maccaronies."[1]
He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1787.
Family
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Lord Jersey married
George IV in 1793, when he was still Prince of Wales
. She was 40 years old at the time and more than once a grandmother.
Lord and Lady Jersey had ten children:
- Lady Charlotte Anne Villiers (1771–1808), married Lord William Russell in 1789, and had issue.
- Lady Anne Barbara Frances Villiers (1772–1832), married William Henry Lambton and had issue, including John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham; married secondly Hon. Charles William Wyndham, son of Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont.
- Sarah Anne Child, only child of Robert Child, the principal shareholder in the banking firm Child & Co.
- Lady Caroline Elizabeth Villiers (1774–1835), married firstly Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, and had issue. She divorced him in the Scottish courts in 1809 and married secondly George Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll.
- Lady Georgiana Villiers, died young.
- Lady Sarah Villiers (born 1779), married Charles Nathaniel Bayley in 1799.
- Hon. William Augustus Henry Villiers (1780–1813), died unmarried in America, having assumed the surname of Mansel in 1802, pursuant to the will of Louisa Barbara, Baroness Vernon.
- Lady Elizabeth Villiers, died unmarried 1810.
- Lady Frances Elizabeth Villiers (1786–1866), married John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby, in 1803.
- Lady Harriet Villiers (1788–1870), married Richard Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, in 1806, and had issue.
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References
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 330.
External links
Media related to George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey at Wikimedia Commons
- Portraits of George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Prints associated with George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey, at the British Museum
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