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{{Short description|English peer and politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = George Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey
| image               = The House of Commons, 1833 by Sir George Hayter.jpg
| alt                 =
| caption             = The House of Commons, 1833 by Sir George Hayter
| office1             = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Cirencester (UK Parliament constituency)|Cirencester]]
| term1               = 1844-1852
| office2             = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (UK Parliament constituency)|Weymouth & Melcombe Regis]]
| term2               = 1837-1842
| office3             = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Honiton (UK Parliament constituency)|Honiton]]
| term3               = 1832-1835
| office4             = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Minehead (UK Parliament constituency)|Minehead]]
| term4               = 1832-1832
| office5             = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Rochester (UK Parliament constituency)|Rochester]]
| term5               = 1830-1831
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1808|04|04|df=yes}}
| birth_place         =
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1859|10|24|1808|04|04|df=yes}}
| death_place         =
| father              = [[George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey|George Child Villiers]]
| mother              = [[Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey|Sarah Fane]]
| children            = 3, including [[Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey|Victor]]
| relatives           = [[Villiers family]]
}}
'''George Augustus Frederick Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey''' (4 April 1808 – 24 October 1859), styled '''Viscount Villiers''' until 1859, was an [[British peerage|English peer]] and politician from the [[Villiers family]].
==Life==
Villiers was born on 4 April 1808 in London, the son of [[George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey]], by [[Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey|Lady Sarah Fane]].<ref name="The Times 25 October 1859" /><ref name="Berkshire Chronicle 29 October 1859" >{{cite news |title=Funeral of the Earl of Jersey |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000358/18591029/027/0007 |access-date=19 July 2022 |work=Berkshire Chronicle |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=29 October 1859 |page=7 col.2}}</ref><ref name="Illustrated London News 29 October 1859" >{{cite news |title=Obituary of eminent persons: the Earl of Jersey |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001578/18591029/058/0018 |access-date=19 July 2022 |work=Illustrated London News |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=29 October 1859 |page=18/424 col.3}}</ref>
He sat as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Rochester (UK Parliament constituency)|Rochester]] from 1830 to 1831, for [[Minehead (UK Parliament constituency)|Minehead]] from 1831 from 1832, for [[Honiton (UK Parliament constituency)|Honiton]] from 1832 to 1835, for [[Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (UK Parliament constituency)|Weymouth & Melcome Regis]] from 1837 to 1842 and for [[Cirencester (UK Parliament constituency)|Cirencester]] from 1844 to 1852.<ref name="The Times 25 October 1859" /><ref name="Berkshire Chronicle 29 October 1859" /><ref>{{Hansard-contribs | viscount-villiers | the Earl of Jersey }}</ref>
He served as a Lord-in-waiting to [[Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel|the Duchess of Cambridge]] at the 1838 [[coronation of Queen Victoria]].
<ref>{{cite web |title=Key to Mr Leslie's picture of Queen Victoria receiving the Holy Sacrament at her Coronation |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw148545/Key-to-Mr-Leslies-picture-of-Queen-Victoria-receiving-the-Holy-Sacrament-at-her-Coronation |website=National Portrait Gallery}}</ref>
==Marriage and issue==
Lord Jersey married Julia Peel (d. 1893), daughter of the Prime Minister, [[Robert Peel|Sir Robert Peel]], on 12 July 1841.<ref name="The Times 25 October 1859" /><ref name="Berkshire Chronicle 29 October 1859" /> They had three children:<ref name="Berkshire Chronicle 29 October 1859" /><ref name="Illustrated London News 29 October 1859" />
* Julia Sarah Alice Child Villiers (d. 1921);<ref name="The Times 25 October 1859" /><ref name="Berkshire Chronicle 29 October 1859" /> she married [[Sir George Orby Wombwell, 4th Baronet]], on 3 September 1861 and had issue
* Caroline Anne Child-Villiers;<ref name="The Times 25 October 1859" /><ref name="Berkshire Chronicle 29 October 1859" /> she married William Henry Philips Jenkins on 4 April 1872 <ref>{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p5281.htm#i52807 |title=p. 5281 §  52807 <!-- Bot generated title -->|publisher= The Peerage}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=September 2012}}<!--Lundy is not a reliable source so cite Lundy's reliable source See [[WP:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT]]--></ref>
* [[Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey]] (1845–1915).<ref name="The Times 25 October 1859" /><ref name="Berkshire Chronicle 29 October 1859" />
He succeeded in the earldom on the death of his father on 3 October 1859 but only held the title until his own death of [[tuberculosis]] three weeks later,<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Jersey, Earls of |volume=15 |page=330 |short=1}}</ref> in [[Brighton]] on 24 October 1859,{{Refn|Deaths Dec 1859 Villiers George Augustus Frederick Brighton 2b 109|group=nb}}<ref name="Berkshire Chronicle 29 October 1859" /> and was buried in [[Middleton Stoney]], [[Oxfordshire]].<ref name="The Times 25 October 1859" >{{cite news |title=Death of the Earl of Jersey |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Newspapers&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&hitCount=6&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&currentPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CCS152081753&docType=Article&sort=Pub+Date+Forward+Chron&contentSegment=ZTMA-MOD1&prodId=TTDA&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CCS152081753&searchId=R2&userGroupName=leedscl&inPS=true |access-date=19 July 2022 |work=The Times |agency=Gale|url-access=subscription |issue=23446 |date=25 October 1859 |page=9}}</ref><ref name="Berkshire Chronicle 29 October 1859" />
Lady Jersey married Charles Brandling on 12 September 1865.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/samuelcousins00whituoft/samuelcousins00whituoft_djvu.txt] Samuel cousins Nineteenth Century Mezzotinters section: V. The lettering of title slightly strengthened. B.M. 125. PEEL, MISS JULIA. After Sir T. Lawrence.</ref>
==See also==
* [[Jersey Street (Boston)]], which is named in honour of Villiers<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/2018/05/jersey_street_has_its_own_dark_past |title=Jersey Street has its own dark past |first=Peter |last=Lucas |newspaper=[[Boston Herald]] |date=May 8, 2018 |access-date=May 8, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/04/26/605851052/boston-red-sox-want-to-strike-former-owners-name-off-street-sign |title=Boston Changes 'Yawkey Way' To 'Jersey Street' After Concerns Over Racist Legacy |first=Tovia |last=Smith |website=[[NPR]] |date=April 26, 2018 |access-date=May 8, 2018}}</ref>
==Notes==
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== External links ==
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*[[Alfred Charles Whitman]], [https://archive.org/stream/samuelcousins00whituoft/samuelcousins00whituoft_djvu.txt ''Samuel Cousins' Nineteenth Century Mezzotinters section: V. The lettering of title slightly strengthened. B.M. 125. PEEL, MISS JULIA. After Sir T. Lawrence.]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=RhdgdztX4OIC&pg=PA411 ''The Letters of Richard Cobden'': 1815-1847]
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