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Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey

(1845-1915), Colonial governor

Sitter in 11 portraits
Child-Villiers succeeded to his father's titles and estates at the age of fourteen while still at school. An enthusiastic athlete, he represented Oxford in the mile race at the first Oxford versus Cambridge athletics meeting in 1865. In later life, he was prominent in athletics administration. Child-Villiers served as a Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria between 1875 and 1877, and in 1889 became Paymaster General in the Salisbury government. He was appointed Governor of New South Wales in 1890, and arrived in Sydney at the beginning of the following year. However, the post was not to his liking and he returned to Britain after less than two years.

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'Luncheon Party at the House of Commons', by Roland Parker Stone, for  Benjamin Stone - NPG x135574

'Luncheon Party at the House of Commons'

by Roland Parker Stone, for Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 29 June 1909
NPG x135574

Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son - NPG D46163

Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey

printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son
lithograph, published in The Country Gentleman, Sporting Gazette and Agricultural Journal 26 December 1885
NPG D46163

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