Stoney. _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 269–74; _New Sporting
Mag._, _x_ 302 (1836), _portrait; Sporting Times 21 Feb. 1885
pp._ 5–6; _J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage_, _ii_ 261 (1886),
_portrait_.
NOTE.--One of the best riders of his time; his name is recorded in
a song called The Billesden Copley Hunt, an account of a run in
Leicestershire 24 Feb. 1800.
JERSEY, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK CHILD-VILLIERS, 6 Earl of
(eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 38 Berkeley sq. London 4 April
1808; styled viscount Villiers 1808–59 when he succeeded; ed. at
Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1837; lieut. Oxfordshire
yeomanry 16 June 1829, major 5 May 1855 to death; M.P. Rochester
1830–1, Minehead 1831–2, Honiton 1832–5, Weymouth 1837–41,
Cirencester 1844–52; contested Cirencester 1852. _d._ Royal
Crescent hotel, Brighton 24 Oct. 1859. _bur._ Middleton Stoney.
JERSEY, SARAH SOPHIA CHILD-VILLIERS, Countess of (eld. dau.
of 10 earl of Westmoreland 1759–1841). _b._ 4 March 1785;
heiress of Robert Child of Osterley park _d._ 1819; a ruler of
society from 1815 to 1855; one of the leading lady patronesses
of Almacks many years, and a professional beauty; popularly
known as Queen Sarah; the head of Childs’s bank, London 1819
to death; had a scene with lord Durham at the drawing room 24
Feb. 1831; (_m._ at Gretna Green 23 May 1804 George Villiers 5
earl of Jersey 1773–1859). _d._ 38 Berkeley sq. London 26 Jany.