Francis Child Villiers | |
Office1: | Member of Parliament for Rochester |
Term1: | 1852-1856 |
Party: | Conservative Party |
Birth Date: | 11 October 1819 |
Father: | George Child Villiers |
Mother: | Lady Sarah Fane |
Relatives: | George Child Villiers (brother) Sarah Child-Villiers (sister) |
The Honourable Francis John Robert Child Villiers (11 October 1819 – 8 May 1862)was a British Conservative Party politician.
Child Villiers was the fourth son of George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, by his wife Lady Sarah Fane. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Rochester in Kent at the 1852 general election[1] and resigned through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 22 November 1855.[2]
Villiers was appointed a Steward of the Jockey Club in 1853.[3] In 1855 he left the country, with £100,000 of betting debts unpaid.[4]