About Francis Child Villiers
Lived 1819 – 1862 (aged 42). Francis Child Villiers was a British politician.
The Honourable Francis John Robert Child Villiers (11 October 1819 – 8 May 1862) 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 and resigned through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 22 November 1855.
Villiers was appointed a Steward of the Jockey Club in 1853. In 1855 he left the country, with £100,000 of betting debts unpaid.
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Who was Francis Child Villiers?
British Conservative Member of Parliament
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Francis Child Villiers was born on 11 October 1819.
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Francis Child Villiers died on 8 May 1862.
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Francis Child Villiers was a politician.
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