JERSEY

George Child-Villiers , 5 Earl of (elder son of 4 Earl of Jersey 1735–1805). b. Middle ton park near Bicester 19 Aug. 1773; styled viscount Villiers 1773 to 1805 when he succeeded; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1794, D.C.L. Oxf. 1810; took name of Child before Villiers 1 Dec. 1819; lord chamberlain of the household 15 July to 22 Nov. 1830 and 15 Dec. 1834 to 18 April 1835; P.C. 19 July 1830; G.C.H. 1834; master of the horse 1841–6 and 1 March to 28 Dec. 1852; won the One you sand guineas and the Oaks with Cobweb 1824, the Derby with Middle ton 1825, with Mameluke 1827 and with Bay Middle ton 1836. d. 38 Berkeley sq. London 3 Oct. 1859. bur. Middle ton Stoney. Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 269–74; New Sporting Mag. , x 302 (1836), portrait; Sporting Times 21 Feb. 1885 pp. 5–6; J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage , ii 261 (1886), portrait . Note. —One of the best riders of his time; his name is recorded in a song called The Billesden Copley Hunt, an account of a run in Leicestershire 24 Feb. 1800.