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Thomas Villiers, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (25 December 1753 – 7 March 1824), known as Lord Hyde from 1776 to 1786, was a British peer and Tory Member of Parliament from the Villiers family.
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Life
editClarendon was the eldest son of Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon and his wife Lady Charlotte Capell, and was educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge.[1]
He was elected to the House of Commons for Christchurch in 1774, a seat he held until 1780. He later represented Helston between 1781 and 1786, when he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords.[2]
He served as a cornet in the Western Troop, Hertfordshire Yeomanry, under the command of his younger brother George, and when George resigned he was promoted to captain to command in his place.[3]
Lord Clarendon died in March 1824, aged 70. He never married and was succeeded in his titles by his younger brother John Charles Villiers.
He lived at The Grove, a country house near Watford, Hertfordshire.
Notes
edit- ^ "Hyde (Thomas Villiers), Lord (HD771)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "VILLIERS, Hon. Thomas (1753–1824), of The Grove, Watford, Herts". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ Sainsbury, p. 35.
References
edit- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]
- Lundy, Darryl. "thepeerage.com". The Peerage.[unreliable source]
- Lt-Col J.D. Sainsbury, The Hertfordshire Yeomanry: An Illustrated History 1794–1920, Welwyn: Hart Books/Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Historical Trust, 1994, ISBN 0-948527-03-X,