Francis Child Villiers

Francis Child Villiers
Member of Parliament for Rochester
In office
1852-1856
Personal details
Born(1819-10-11)11 October 1819
Died8 May 1862(1862-05-08) (aged 42)
Political partyConservative
Parents
RelativesGeorge Child Villiers (brother)
Sarah Child-Villiers (sister)

The Honourable 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]

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)
  2. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [First published 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 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ Birley, Derek (1993). Sport and the Making of Britain. Manchester University Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-071903759-7.