George Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey
George Augustus Frederick Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey (4 April 1808 – 24 October 1859), styled Viscount Villiers until 1859, was an English peer and politician from the Villiers family. Life. Villiers was the son of George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, by Lady Sarah Fane. He sat as Member of Parliament for Rochester from 1830 to 1831, for Minehead from 1831 from 1832, for Honiton from 1832 to 1835, for Weymouth & Melcome Regis from 1837 to 1842 and for Cirencester from 1844 to 1852. He served as a Lord-in-waiting  to the Duchess of Cambridge at the 1838 coronation of Queen Victoria. Marriage and issue. Lord Jersey married Julia Peel (d. 1893), daughter of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, on 12 July 1841. They had three children: He succeeded in the earldom on the death of his father on 3 October 1859 but only held the title until his own death three weeks later. Lady Jersey married Charles Brandling on 12 September 1865.