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George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon

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British diplomat (1800-1870)

WritersLived 1800 to 1870 · aged 70

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George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon was an English diplomat and statesman from the Villiers family. He served a succession of Whig and Liberal administrations.

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Quartered arms of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, KG, GCB, PC

Clarendon with Lord Cowley (left)

Signed Clarendon Military Passport 1857

George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon by Carlo Pellegrini, 1869

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Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

Order of the Garter

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SpouseLady Katherine Grimston

ChildFrancis Hyde Villiers

ChildEdward Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon

ChildEmily Russell, Baroness Ampthill

ChildConstance Stanley, Countess of Derby

ChildLady Alice Villiers

ChildEdward Hyde Villiers, Lord Hyde

ChildLady Florence Villiers

SiblingCharles Pelham Villiers

SiblingThomas Hyde Villiers

SiblingHenry Montagu Villiers

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe94.3

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George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon was an English diplomat and statesman from the Villiers family. He served a succession of Whig and Liberal administrations. This included as Viceroy in famine-stricken Ireland and, on the first of three occasions as Foreign Secretary, as the United Kingdom's chief representative at the Congress of Paris which ended the Crimean War.