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Photographie,vintage CDV albumen carte de visite, George William Frederick Villiers (12 janvier 1800, Londres ? 27 juin 1870, Londres), 4e comte de Clarendon, est un homme politique britannique. Il fut ministre des Affaires étrangères de la Grande-Bretagne de 1853 à 1858, de 1865 à 1866 et de 1868 à 1870. Il dut gérer les relations internationales pendant la guerre de Crimée puis il fut le responsable de la délégation lors du Congrès de Paris. Il fut un des membres de parti Whig. famille Le 4 juin 1839, Villiers a épousé la veuve Lady Katherine Foster-Barham (une fille de James Grimston, 1er comte de Verulam) et ils eurent huit enfants : Lady Constance Villiers (1840-1922), marié Frederick Stanley, 16e comte de Derby. Lady Alice Villiers (1841-1897), a épousé Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1er comte de Lathom. Lady Emily Thérèse (1843-1927), marié Odo Russell, 1er baron Ampthill. Edward Hyde, Lord Hyde (1845-1846). Edward Villiers, 5e comte de Clarendon (1846-1914). Hon. George Patrick Hyde (1847-1892), épousé Louisa Maria Maquay, fille de George Disney Maquay, le 9 octobre 1884 Lady Florence Margaret (1850-1851). Hon. Francis Hyde Villiers (1852-1925), marié en Virginie Katharine Smith, fille de Eric Carrington Smith et Mary Maberly, le 28 juin 1876. Hon. Thomas Garret Maximilien Hyde Villiers, champion d'échecs. George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon KG GCB PC (12 January 1800 ? 27 June 1870), was an English diplomat and statesman from the Villiers family. Villiers was born in London, the son of the Honourable George Villiers and Theresa Parker. He went up to Cambridge at the early age of sixteen and entered St John's College on 29 June 1816.[1] In 1820, as the eldest son of an earl's brother with royal descent, he was able to take his M.A. degree under the statutes of the university then in force.[2] Career[edit] In the same year, he was appointed attaché to the British embassy at Saint Petersburg. There he remained three years, and gained that practical knowledge of diplomacy which was of so much use to him in later life. He had received from nature a singularly handsome person, a polished and engaging address, a ready command of languages, and a remarkable power of composition.[2] Upon his return to England in 1823, he was appointed to a commissionership of customs, an office which he retained for about ten years. In 1831, he was despatched to France to negotiate a commercial treaty, which however was fruitless. On 16 August 1833, he was appointed minister at the court of Spain. Ferdinand VII died within a month of his arrival at Madrid, and the infant queen Isabella, then in the third year of her age, was placed on her contested throne, based on the old Spanish custom of female inheritance. Don Carlos, the late king's brother, claimed the crown by virtue of the Salic law of the House of Bourbon which Ferdinand had renounced before the birth of his daughter. Isabella II and her mother Christina, the queen regent, became the representatives of constitutional monarchy, Don Carlos of Catholic absolutism. The conflict which had divided the despotic and the constitutional powers of Europe since the French Revolution of 1830 broke out into civil war in Spain, and by the Quadruple Treaty, signed on 22 April 1834, France and England pledged themselves to the defence of the constitutional thrones of Spain and Portugal. For six years Villiers continued to give the most active and intelligent support to the Liberal government of Spain. He was accused, though unjustly, of having favoured the revolution of La Granja, which drove Christina, the queen mother, out of the kingdom, and raised Espartero to the regency. He undoubtedly supported the chiefs of the Liberal party, such as Espartero, against the intrigues of the French court; but the object of the British government was to establish the throne of Isabella on a truly national and liberal basis and to avert those complications, dictated by foreign influence, which event. N° de ref. del artículo PD8583
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