Thomas Hyde Villiers
Thomas Hyde Villiers (24 January 1801 – 3 December 1832) was a British politician from the Villiers family.
The second son of the Hon.
He was Member of Parliament for Hedon from 1826 to 1830, for Wootton Bassett in 1830, and for Bletchingley from 1831 to 1832. He held office as Secretary to the Board of Control from 1831 until 1832.
Early life
He was the second son of George Villiers (1759–1827), who married, on 17 April 1798, Theresa, only daughter of
Thomas Villiers was educated at home; he was then sent with his eldest brother to St. John's College, Cambridge. There he mixed with
Politician
Villiers joined in 1825 a debating club called "The Academics", where several of his college friends and John Stuart Mill discussed political and economic topics. A speech of his, aon colonisation, attracted the attention of the chancellor of the exchequer. Not long afterwards Villiers gave up government service to embark on politics. His chief source of income at that point was from the agencies for Berbice and Newfoundland.[2]
At the general election in June 1826 Villiers was returned to parliament for the borough of Hedon in Yorkshire, and sat for it until the dissolution in 1830. In 1830 and 1831 he sat respectively for Wootton Bassett (a family borough) and Bletchingley, and voted for the
Between 1825 and 1828, Villiers and
Villiers travelled in Ireland in 1828, and set out his views in long letters to Taylor. A letter written by him in February 1829 was shown to
Family
Villiers and Charlotte Harte had two children: Rev. Charles Lawrence Villiers (1830 – 15 October 1893), Rector of Croft Parish in Yorkshire,[5] and Gertrude Villiers (1 August 1834[dubious ] – 2 July 1896),[6] who in 1853 married Rev. William Frederick Bickmore.
Rev. Villiers married Florence Mary Tyssen Amhurst and had issue, including a daughter named Gertrude Mary Amelia Villiers (1861 – 30 Aug 1949)[7][8] who in 1896 married Hon. Robert Grimston (18 April 1860 – 8 July 1927).[9][10]
Death
At the time of his death Villiers was a candidate for the constituency of
References
- ^ "Villiers, Thomas Hyde (VLRS817TH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d e f Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
- ^ Lamont, Stephen Peter (2015). "Robert Wilmot Horton and Liberal Toryism" (PDF). University of Nottingham.
- ^ House of Commons Hansard, 22 August 1831, col 437-440.
- ^ [1] Charles Villiers in the 1881 England Census; Class: RG11; Piece: 4890; Folio: 21; Page: 1; GSU roll: 1342176. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1881 England Census (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1881.
- ^ Thomas Hyde Villiers
- ^ [2] Gertrude Mary Amelia Lawrence in the England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915. FreeBMD. England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office.
- ^ [3] Honorable Gertrude Mary Amelia Grimston in the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995. Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England.
- ^ [4] The Honourable Robert Grimston in the Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900. Ancestry.com. Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Venn, J. A., comp.. Alumni Cantabrigienses. London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954.
- ^ [5] Robert Grimston in the England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007. Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Office for National Statistics. You must not copy on, transfer or reproduce records without the prior permission of ONS. Indexes created by the General Register Office, in London, England.
External links
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Villiers, Thomas Hyde". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.