Thomas Villiers, 2nd Earl of Clarendon by William Bond, after Robert Trewick Bone.
The Grove, Watford. Now an hotel
Thomas Villiers, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (25 December 1753 – 7 March 1824), known as Lord Hyde from 1776 to 1786, was a British peer and Tory Member of Parliament from the Villiers family.
Life[]
Clarendon was the eldest son of Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon and his wife Lady Charlotte Capell, and was educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge.[1]
He was elected to the House of Commons for Christchurch in 1774, a seat he held until 1780. He later represented Helston between 1781 and 1786, when he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords.[2]
He served as a Cornet in the Western Troop, Hertfordshire Yeomanry, under the command of his younger brother George, and when George resigned he was promoted to Captain to command in his place.[3]
Lord Clarendon died in March 1824, aged 70. He never married and was succeeded in his titles by his younger brother John Charles Villiers.
He lived at The Grove, a country house near Watford, Hertfordshire.
Notes[]
- ↑ "Hyde (Thomas Villiers), Lord (HD771)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=%22HD771%22&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50.
- ↑ "VILLIERS, Hon. Thomas (1753–1824), of The Grove, Watford, Herts.". History of Parliament Online. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/villiers-hon-thomas-1753-1824. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ↑ Sainsbury, p. 35.
References[]
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages }[better source needed]
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- Lundy, Darryl. "thepeerage.com". The Peerage. http://www.thepeerage.com/.[unreliable source]
- Lt-Col J.D. Sainsbury, The Hertfordshire Yeomanry: An Illustrated History 1794–1920, Welwyn: Hart Books/Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Historical Trust, 1994, ISBN 0-948527-03-X,
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Clarendon
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