George Child Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey

George Henry Robert Child Child Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey (2 June 1873 – 31 December 1923), was a British peerage and Conservative politician.

Villiers was the son of Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, and the Honourable Margaret Elizabeth, daughter of William Leigh, 2nd Baron Leigh. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1915 and served briefly as a Lord-in-Waiting under David Lloyd George between January and August 1919. Lord Jersey sold the Child & Co bank, part of the family's inheritance since the 5th Earl married into the Child family, to Glyn, Mills & Co. Bank in 1923.

Family

Lord Jersey married Lady Cynthia Almina Constance Mary Needham, daughter of Francis Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey and Ellen Constance Baldock,^[1] on 8 October 1908. They had four children:

George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey (1910–1998).
Lady Joan Child Villiers (1911–2010), married David Colville, (who died 1986) grandson of Charles Colville, 1st Viscount Colville of Culross.
Hon. (Edward) Mansel Child Villiers (3 May 1913–9 March 1980), married twice (firstly 1934, diss. 1940 to Barbara Mary and secondly 1946, diss. 1971 to Princess Maria Gloria Pignatelli Aragona Cortez:
Lady Ann Child Villiers (1916–2006), married (1937) Major Alexander Henry Elliot (d. 1986).

References

^ thePeerage.com

thepeerage.com Retrieved September 5, 2009: George Henry Robert Child-Villiers, 8th Earl of the Island Jersey

Political offices
Preceded by The Lord Herschell	Lord-in-Waiting 1919	Succeeded by The Earl of Onslow
Peerage of England
Preceded by Victor Child Villers	Earl of Jersey 1915 – 1923	Succeeded by George Child Villers
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Victor Child Villers	Viscount Grandison 1915 – 1923	Succeeded by George Child Villers

Persondata
Name	Jersey, George Child Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey
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Date of birth	1873
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Date of death	1923
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