Francis Hyde Villiers

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The Hon. Sir Francis Hyde Villiers (13 August 1852, London – 18 November 1925) was an English civil servant.

Youngest son of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, Villiers entered the Foreign Office in 1870. He was appointed Acting Second Secretary in the Diplomatic Service in 1885, serving as Private Secretary to the Earl of Rosebery (1886, 1892-94) and Acting Private Secretary to the Marquess of Salisbury (1887). From 1896 to 1906 he was Assistant Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. From 1905 to 1911 he was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal, and from 1911 to 1919 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Belgium. He ended his career as Ambassador to Belgium from 1919 to 1920.^[1]