Original sentence: 1544 – 4 January 1606) was the father of James I's favourite, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.1570 – 1632), daughter of Anthony Beaumont of Glenfield, Leicestershire, with whom he had three sons and a daughter:.According to Thomson, Sir George is the ancestor of fifteen British prime ministers:.George Villiers, born about 1544, was the eldest son of William Villiers of Brooksby, Leicestershire, and Colett, widow of Richard Beaumont of Coleorton, Leicestershire, and daughter and heir of Richard Clarke of Willoughby, Warwickshire.The Villiers family had been settled at Brooksby since at least 1235.Villiers is said to have been a "prosperous sheep farmer".Villiers married secondly, about 1590, his "beautiful but penniless first cousin by the half-blood", Mary Beaumont (c.Will of William Saunders of Harrington, Northamptonshire, proved 14 May 1584, PROB 11/67/61, National Archives; retrieved 26 August 2013
Edited sentence: 1544 – 4 January 1606) was a minor member of the English gentry, notable as the father of James I's favourite, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.1570–1632), the daughter of Anthony Beaumont of Glenfield, Leicestershire, by  whom he had three sons and a daughter:.According to Thomson, Sir George Villiers is the ancestor of fifteen British prime ministers:.George Villiers, born about 1544, was the eldest son of William Villiers of Brooksby, Leicestershire, and Colett Clarke, widow of Richard Beaumont of Coleorton, Leicestershire, and daughter and heir of Richard Clarke of Willoughby, Warwickshire.The Villiers family had been settled at Brooksby from at least 1235.Villiers is said to have been a 'prosperous sheep farmer'.Villiers married secondly, about 1590, his 'beautiful but penniless first cousin by the half-blood', Mary Beaumont (c.Will of William Saunders of Harrington, Northamptonshire , proved 14 May 1584, PROB 11/67/61, National Archives Retrieved 26 August 2013