Modern English biography

Stoney. _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 269–74; _New Sporting Mag._, _x_ 302 (1836), _portrait; Sporting Times 21 Feb. 1885 pp._ 5–6; _J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage_, _ii_ 261 (1886), _portrait_. NOTE.--One of the best riders of his time; his name is recorded in a song called The Billesden Copley Hunt, an account of a run in Leicestershire 24 Feb. 1800. JERSEY, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK CHILD-VILLIERS, 6 Earl of (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 38 Berkeley sq. London 4 April 1808; styled viscount Villiers 1808–59 when he succeeded; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1837; lieut. Oxfordshire yeomanry 16 June 1829, major 5 May 1855 to death; M.P. Rochester 1830–1, Minehead 1831–2, Honiton 1832–5, Weymouth 1837–41, Cirencester 1844–52; contested Cirencester 1852. _d._ Royal Crescent hotel, Brighton 24 Oct. 1859. _bur._ Middleton Stoney. JERSEY, SARAH SOPHIA CHILD-VILLIERS, Countess of (eld. dau. of 10 earl of Westmoreland 1759–1841). _b._ 4 March 1785; heiress of Robert Child of Osterley park _d._ 1819; a ruler of society from 1815 to 1855; one of the leading lady patronesses of Almacks many years, and a professional beauty; popularly known as Queen Sarah; the head of Childs’s bank, London 1819 to death; had a scene with lord Durham at the drawing room 24 Feb. 1831; (_m._ at Gretna Green 23 May 1804 George Villiers 5 earl of Jersey 1773–1859). _d._ 38 Berkeley sq. London 26 Jany.