Francis Child Villiers

The Hon. Francis John Robert Child Villiers (11 October 1819 – 8 May 1862)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.

Child Villiers was the fourth son of George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, by his wife Lady Sarah Fane. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Rochester in Kent at the 1852 general election[2] and resigned through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 22 November 1855.[3]

Villiers was appointed a Steward of the Jockey Club in 1853.[4] In 1855 he left the country, with £100,000 of betting debts unpaid.[5]

References

  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)
  2. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 258. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  3. Department of Information Services (14 January 2010). "Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
  4. Weatherby, Charles and James (1854). THE RACING CALENDAR FOR THE YEAR 1854. RACES TO COME. VOLUME THE EIGHTY-SECOND. p. xxxviii.
  5. Birley, Derek (1993). Sport and the Making of Britain. Manchester University Press. p. 229. ISBN 9780719037597.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Ralph Bernal
Thomas Twisden Hodges
Member of Parliament for Rochester
18521856
With: Thomas Herbert Maddock
Succeeded by
Philip Wykeham Martin
Thomas Herbert Maddock


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