page_title: George Villiers (1759–1827)
section_title: Marriage and children
hierarchical_section_title: George Villiers (1759–1827) / Marriage and children
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Theresa Villiers (1775-1856), name before marriage Hon. Theresa Parker, wife of George Villiers MP (1759–1827)
context_page_description: The Hon. George Villiers was a British courtier and politician from the Villiers family. The youngest son of the diplomat Lord Hyde, he was an intimate of Princess Amelia and personal supporter of her father, George III. His favour within the Royal Family and his father's influence brought him a number of sinecures to support him. However, Villiers was more interested in the operation of the royal farms at Windsor Castle than in politics or the duties of his offices. When his bookkeeping as Paymaster of the Marines was carefully examined in 1810, Villiers' carelessness and the speculation of his clerk had left him in debt to the Crown by more than £250,000. This exposure touched off a public scandal; Villiers promptly surrendered all his property to the Crown and threw himself on the king's mercy. The misconduct of Joseph Hunt as Treasurer of the Ordnance to some extent obscured Villiers' own misconduct, and he was able to retain other sinecures and a stable, if reduced, income from them until his death in 1827.
context_section_description: On 17 April 1798, George married Theresa Parker. She was a daughter of John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon and his second wife Hon. Theresa Robinson. Her maternal grandparents were Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham and Frances Worsley. They had ten children:
  Georgiana Villiers (12 February 1799 – 16 March 1799)
  George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (27 January 1800 – 27 June 1870)
  Thomas Hyde Villiers (24 January 1801 – 3 December 1832)
  Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers (3 January 1802 – 16 January 1898)
  Lady Maria Theresa Villiers (8 March 1803 – 9 November 1865). Married first novelist Thomas Henry Lister on 6 November 1830, they had a daughter, Alice Beatrice (d. 1863), who married Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk. After her first husband's death, she married politician Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 2nd Baronet on 25 October 1844.
  Frederick Adolphus Villiers (17 February 1805 – 21 November 1806)
  Hon. Edward Ernest Villiers (23 March 1806 – 30 October 1843) was educated at Merton College, Oxford (where he was a president of the United Debating Society) and Lincoln's Inn, and was later a Colonization Commissioner for South Australia. He married Elizabeth Charlotte Liddell, daughter of Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth, leaving a son and three daughters. Their daughter Edith Villiers married Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton and became Lady of the Bedchamber to both Queen Victoria and Her Majesty Queen Alexandra.
  Augustus Villiers (2 March 1808 – 24 March 1808)
  Hon. Henry Montagu Villiers (4 January 1813 – 9 August 1861), Bishop of Durham from 1860 to his death.
  Lt. Hon. Augustus Algernon Villiers, RN (14 April 1817 – 13 July 1843), died unmarried, Knight of Isabella the Catholic
caption: Hon. Theresa Parker, wife of George Villiers
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