George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, KG, KP, GCB, PC (12 January 1800 – 27 June 1870) was an English diplomat and statesman from the Villiers family. Following diplomatic postings, he served a succession of Whig and Liberal administrations. This included as Viceroy in famine-stricken Ireland and, on the first of three occasions as Foreign Secretary, as the United Kingdom's chief representative at the Congress of Paris which ended the Crimean War.
The Earl of Clarendon
12 January 1800
London, England
27 June 1870 (aged 70)
London, England
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George Villiers
Theresa Parker
Background and education[edit]
Villiers was born in London, the son of George Villiers MP and Theresa Parker. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and St John's College, Cambridge, which he entered at the early age of sixteen, on 29 June 1816.[1] In 1820, as the eldest son of an earl's brother of royal descent, he was able to take his MA degree under the statutes of the university then in force.[2]
On 4 June 1839, Villiers married the widowed Lady Katherine Foster-Barham (a daughter of James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam) and they had eight children: