- Edward Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon
Edward Hyde Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon PC (
11 February 1846 –2 October 1914 ), known as Lord Hyde between 1846 and 1870, was a BritishLiberal Unionist politician.Clarendon was the eldest son of the prominent Liberal statesman
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon and his wife Lady Katherine Grimston, daughter ofJames Walter Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam . He succeeded his father as 5th Earl of Clarendon in June 1870.Family
He married firstly, Lady Caroline Agar, daughter of
James Agar, 3rd Earl of Normanton , on6 September 1876 . After his first wife's death in 1894 he married secondly, Emma Hatch, on5 August 1908 . By his first marriage he had two children:* George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon (1877–1955)
* Lady Edith Villiers (1878–1935)Lord Clarendon died in October 1914, aged 68, and was succeeded in the earldom by his only son George Herbert Hyde Villiers
Politics
He was elected to Parliament for Brecon in 1869, a seat he retained until the following year, when he succeeded his father in the earldom and took his seat in the
House of Lords . In 1895 Lord Clarendon was appointed a government whip in the Conservative administration of Lord Salisbury, a position he held until 1900, when he was promoted toLord Chamberlain of the Household and admitted to the Privy Council. He retained this office also when Arthur Balfour became Prime Minister in 1902. The government fell in December 1905 and Clarendon was never to return to office.Apart from his political career Lord Clarendon was also
Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire from 1893 to 1914.Cricket
Hyde made 1 known appearance in
first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1865Arthur Haygarth , "Scores & Biographies", Volume 9 (1865-1866), Lillywhite, 1867] . He was a right handed batsman (RHB) and a roundarm fast bowler.Four of his uncles James, Edward, Robert and
Francis Grimston all played first-class cricket, as did his cousinWalter Grimston .References
External sources
* [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30518/30518.html CricketArchive record]
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