George Child Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey

Who was George Child Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey?

George Henry Robert Child Child Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey, was a British peerage and Conservative politician.

Villiers was the son of Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, and the Honourable Margaret Elizabeth, daughter of William Leigh, 2nd Baron Leigh. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1915 and served briefly as a Lord-in-Waiting under David Lloyd George between January and August 1919. Lord Jersey sold the Child & Co bank, part of the family's inheritance since the 5th Earl married into the Child family, to Glyn, Mills & Co. Bank in 1923.