Wife and Children
On 6 November 1830, Lister married Lady Maria Theresa Villiers, daughter of George Villiers and Theresa Parker, both of noble families. They had three children:
- Thomas Villiers (1832-1902), who married first Fanny Harriet Coryton and secondly Florence Selina Hamilton, daughter of geologist William John Hamilton and his second wife Margaret Frances Florence Dillon;
- Maria Theresa (died 1 February 1863), who married the politician William Vernon Harcourt, by whom she had a son, Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt.
- Alice Beatrice (died 28 March 1898), who married Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk, owner of the London newspaper the Morning Post, by whom she had a Lilias Margaret Frances Borthwick, who married Seymour Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst.
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