Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey NPG D46163

© National Portrait Gallery, London

printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son

Child-Villiers succeeded to his father's titles and estates at the age of fourteen while still at school. An enthusiastic athlete, he represented Oxford in the mile race at the first Oxford versus Cambridge athletics meeting in 1865. In later life, he was prominent in athletics administration. Child-Villiers served as a Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria between 1875 and 1877, and in 1889 became Paymaster General in the Salisbury government. He was appointed Governor of New South Wales in 1890, and arrived in Sydney at the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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