George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne PC, of Stowe, Cornwall, was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1702 until 1712, when he was raised to the peerage
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, was an English diplomat, courtier and Tory politician from the Villiers family. He was created Baron Villiers and Viscount Villiers in 1691 and Earl of Jersey in 1
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
…On 15 December 1711 in the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields in Westminster, London, he married (as her 2nd husband) Mary Villiers, the daughter of Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey (1656–1711) and Barbara Villiers, Countess of Jersey, and the widow of Thomas Thynne (d. 1710). He died in London on 29 January 1735, his wife having…
Portrait of Jersey by Hyacinthe Rigaud
Edward Villiers as a young man in a portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud