About Ernest Villiers
Lived 1863 – 1923 (aged 59–60). Ernest Villiers was a British politician.
Ernest Amherst Villiers (14 November 1863 – 26 September 1923), was a British clergyman and Liberal politician.
Villiers was the son of Reverend Charles Villiers of Croft, Yorkshire, and his wife Florence Mary (née Tyssen-Amherst). His great-grandfather, the Hon. George Villiers, was the third son of Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon.
Educated at Uppingham School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, he was ordained as an Anglican priest. After three years as a curate in Halifax, he became rector of Haveringland, Norfolk.
Villiers died at his residence, Speen Court, Newbury, Berkshire in September 1923, aged 59. He was buried in the graveyard of Speen Parish Church.
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