Sunday 18 August 2019

990) Victor Albert George Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey

Victor Albert George Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey (1845 – 1915). British banker, Conservative politician and colonial administrator from the Villiers family. He served as Governor of New South Wales between 1891 and 1893.
His mother was the daughter of Sir Robert Peel

- "His nose was large and aquiline, he had mutton-chop whiskers and red hair which he combed 'cranewise over his globe-shaped cerebrum'."  http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jersey-seventh-earl-of-6844

- "The new Governor was a trimly built figure, affable in his manner, with thinning red hair..."  https://books.google.it/books…





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