Historical Database
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The Right Honourable Victor Albert George Child-Villiers

7th Earl of the Island of Jersey in the peerage of England
Governor of New South Wales
Born
20 March 1845, Westminster, England
Died
31 May 1915, Isleworth (Middlesex), England
Sex
Male
Father
The Rt Hon George Augustus Frederick Villiers (6th Earl of the Island of Jersey)
Mother
Julia Peel (daughter of The Rt Hon Sir Robert Peel, British Prime Minister)
Married The Hon Margaret Elizabeth Leigh (DBE; daughter of The Rt Hon William Henry Leigh, 2nd Baron Leigh)

Parliamentary service

Governor of New South Wales

Career

  • Principal proprietor, Child & Co, bankers.
  • Lord-in-Waiting to the Queen 1875-77.
  • Paymaster-Gen of the UK 1889-90.
  • Governor of NSW 1891-93.
  • Agent-Gen of NSW in London 1903-05.
  • PC 1890, GCMG 1890, GCB 1900.

Sources

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