Talk:George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

message: The article says Buckingham angered people by claiming the title of Baron de Ros which was held by Dorchester's son-in-law. The page on the barony of de Ros says he inherited it in the ordinary course. On the page for Dorchester's son-in-law, the Duke of Rutland, it says he was once styled Lord Roos but says nothing about him claiming the barony or disputing it with Buckingham. Can anyone please clear up? Jess Cully (talk) 12:28, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barony of de Ros 

message: The article says that Buckingham's father died when our subject was four months old, and then says that he and his younger brother Francis were brought up with the king's sons.  This younger brother Francis would then be posthumous.  Neither the article on the first Duke of Buckingham nor that on his Duchess, in enumerating their issue, mentions this Francis.  I suspect he didn't exist.  Can anyone clarify? J S Ayer (talk) 01:36, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Younger brother Francis 

message: Further reading sections are almost always a mistake at Wikipedia, given that they are usually uncurated and unannotated, prone to bloat and unhelpful to readers. Most of this is just cribbed from the EB11 entry in any case:
* John H. O'Neill, George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1984) Twayne's English Authors Series, TEAS 394. 
* David C. Hanrahan, Charles II and the Duke of Buckingham: The Merry Monarch and the Aristocratic Rogue (2006). 
* Charles Harding Firth, Dictionary of National Biography (1899)
* Lady Burghchere, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1903).
* Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxon. (Bliss), iv. 207
* Brian Fairfax, Biographia Britannica
* Horace Walpole, Catalogue of Pictures of George Duke of Buckingham (1758)
* Arber, the Rehearsal (1868)
* Hudibras in The Genuine Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler, by Robert Thyer (1759), ii. 72.
* Quarterly Review, Jan. 1898
* A Conference on the Doctrine of Transubstantiation between ... the Duke of Buckingham and Father FitzGerald (1714)
* Samuel Rawson Gardiner, History of the Commonwealth (1894–1901)
* William John Courthope, History of English Poetry (1903), iii. 460
* Horace Walpole, Royal and Noble Authors, iii. 304
* Tom Brown, Miscellanea Aulica (1702)
* Fairfax Correspondence (1848–1849).
Kindly restore these to the article as they are used to verify inline citations or once they are glossed to explain the importance of the source to readers. — LlywelynII 15:18, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for future article expansion

message: I have removed some information about the location of the death, as it is inconsistent with what I understand. It is thought that the battle, which was little more than a skirmish, was fought on the plateau at the top of Surbiton Hill and that Francis made his last stand by an elm in a lane between Surbiton Common and Kingston. The lane is thought to survive as Villiers Path. Looking at maps, I find this the more likely location. LynwoodF (talk) 13:22, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death of Francis Villiers 

message: There was a group of streets in Charing Cross that together formed the name "George Villiers Duke Of Buckingham". So, George Street, Villiers Street, Duke Street, Buckingham Street. I was particularly taken by the street name-plate that read: "Formerly Of Alley" - presumably there was once an "Of Alley". I don't recall what it was renamed to. [aha - York Place: https://i2.wp.com/www.cabbieblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Of-Alley.jpg?resize=240%2C135]
I no longer live in London, and I avoid the place, as far as possible; but I think this area has been redeveloped, and probably none of these streets remain. MrDemeanour (talk) 08:53, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: MrDemeanour, glad to see you are still editing, Villiers Street and Buckingham Street still seem to have their original names, the first information I found via a search engine was this blog. TSventon (talk) 08:52, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formerly Of Alley 

message: The article says Villiers was patron of Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat, Matthew Clifford and William Wycherley, based on the 1911 Britannica article on Villiers. The Wikipedia article on Clifford seems to be Martin Clifford. TSventon (talk) 09:07, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Matthew Clifford