George Child Villiers, 9th Earl Of Jersey
George Francis Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey (15 February 1910 – 9 August 1998), was an English peer, the son of George Child Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey. He gave one of the family seats, Osterley Park, to the British nation in the late 1940s.
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