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 272 CLARENDON 2 July 1870, at Watford, aged 70.(^) Will pr. 3 Aug. 1870, under 44 Wimpole Str., Marylebone, and was bur. at Watford. Will pr. 20 Aug. 1874, under ;{! 12,000. [Edward Hyde Villiers, styled Lord Hyde, ist s. and h. ap., b. 30 Jan. 1845; ^- ^" infant v.p., 26 Feb. 1846, in Belgrave Sq.] IX. 1870. 5. Edward Hyde (Villiers), Earl of Clarendon [1776] and Baron Hyde of Hindon [1756], 2nd but ist surv. s. and h., b. 1 1 Feb. 1846, at the Vice Regal Lodge, Dublin; ed. at Harrow school, and at Trin. Coll. Cambridge, B.A. 1867; M.P. (Liberal) for Brecon i869-70.('') Lord Lieut, of Herts since 1892; a Lord in Waiting 1 895-1900; Yeomanry A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, Edward VII, and George V since 1897; P. C. 12 Nov. 1900; Lord Chamberlain 1900-05; G.C.B. (civil) 26 June 1 902 ; G.C.V.O. 19 Dec. 1905. He w;., 6 Sep. 1876, at Harbridge, Somerley, Hants, Caroline Elizabeth, ist da. of James Charles Herbert Wel- bore Ellis (Agar), 3rd Earl of Normanton [I.], by Caroline Susan Augusta, da. of William Keppel (Barrington), 6th Viscount Barrington [I.]. She, who was b. 2 1 Mar. 1857, d. 9 May 1 894. He ;«., 2ndly, privately, 5 Aug. 1908, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, Emma Mary Augusta, widow of the Hon. Edward Roden Bourke (6th s. of the 5th Earl of Mayo), ist da. of Lieut. Gen. George Cliffe Hatch, C.S.I. [George Herbert Hyde Villiers, styled Lord Hyde, s. and h. ap., b. 7 June 1877, at 31 Upper Brook Str., Midx. He w., 5 Aug. 1 905, at Trinity Church, Sloane Str., Chelsea, Verena Adeline Isabel, sister of Arthur Herbert Tennyson (Cocks), 6th Baron Somers, yr. of the 2 daugh- ters of Herbert Haldane Somers-Cocks, by Blanche Margaret Standish, da. of Major Herbert Cloystoun, V.C] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 2,298 acres in Herts and Warwickshire, worth ;^3,74i a year. Principal Residence. — The Grove, near Watford, Herts; purchased in 1753 by the ist Earl. (^) " The retrospect of so long a public and official life as that of Clarendon is full of instruction and interest. His principal qualification for the posts he filled was, perhaps, his unwearied industry. Probably there was never a harder worker. He wrote with extraordinary facility as well as felicity. He was an admirable talker and a most patient listener. He was a Master of the Art of Conversation, ^c." See Annual Register for 1870, where there is a long and appreciative account of his political career. Gladstone writes of him as "a statesman of many gifts, a most lovable and genial man." He and his wife are the " Lord and Lady Everingham " in Disraeli's Coningsby (1844). J. L. Motley describes him in 1858 as "a tall, thin, handsome, aristocratic-looking person." G.E.C. and V.G. C") In 1886 he became a Liberal Unionist. V.G.
 * /^2 50,000. His widow, who was b. 18 Apr. 18 10, d. 4 July 1874, at