VILLIERS, William (c. 1682-1721) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. c. 1682, 1st s. Edward Villiers, later earl of Jersey, and Barbara (d.1735), da. of William Chiffinch, kpr. of royal closet. educ. Queens’, Camb. 1699, MA 1700; travelled abroad (France) 1700–1. Longleat, Bath mss, Prior pprs. 6 f. 50, xiii. ff. 1–5; HMC Bath, iii. 418; CSP Dom. 1700–2, p. 28. m. 22 Mar. 1705 (with more than £30,000), Judith (d.1732), da. of Frederick Herne^‡, merchant of London, 2s. 1da. d. 13 July 1721; will 9 July 1721, pr. 4 Dec. 1721. TNA, PROB 11/582.

Offices Held

Teller of exch. 1701 – 02.

Freeman, Rochester 1705.

Merchant adventurer 1703. Add. 28079, ff. 59–60.

Parlimentarian

VILLIERS, William, Visct. Villiers (1682-1721), of Squerryes, nr. Westerham, Kent, and Golden Square, London

Associated with: Squerries, Kent; Golden Sq., London;G. Leveson Gower, Parochial History of Westerham, 17; Records of the family of Villiers, earls of Jersey, 15; Add. 61589, f. 196; HMC Cowper, iii. 117.; Castlethorpe, Bucks.

Likenesses

William Villiers, 2nd earl of Jersey, and Mary Granville, Lady Lansdowne, mezzotinte by John Smith, aft. Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1700 (NPG D36508).

Author

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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