Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey

The Right Honourable The Earl of Jersey GCB GCMG PC JP DL
The Earl of Jersey by H. Newman, courtesy of the National Library of Australia.
Paymaster-General
In office 1889 – December 1890
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Prime Minister	The Marquess of Salisbury
Preceded by	The Earl Brownlow
Succeeded by	The Lord Windsor
17th Governor of New South Wales
In office January 1891 – March 1893
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	The Lord Carrington
Succeeded by	Robert Duff
Personal details
Born	20 March 1845 (1845-03-20) Berkeley Square, London
Died	31 May 1915(1915-05-31) (aged 70) Osterley Park, Middlesex
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Dame Margaret Child Villiers (née Leigh; 1849-1945), Countess of Jersey (m. 1872-1915; his death)
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford

Victor Albert George Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey GCB GCMG PC JP DL (20 March 1845 – 31 May 1915), was a British banker, Conservative politician and colonial administrator from the Villiers family. He served as Governor of New South Wales between 1891 and 1893.

Born at Berkeley Square, London, Lord Jersey was the eldest son of George Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey, and Julia Peel, daughter of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, Bt. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He succeeded in the earldom in October 1859, aged 14, on the death of his father, who had only succeeded his father three weeks earlier. He became the principal proprietor of the family banking firm of Child & Co.

Lord Jersey served as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) between 1875 and 1877 in the Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli. He returned to the government in 1889 when Lord Salisbury made him Paymaster-General, which he remained until 1890. The latter year he was sworn of the Privy Council and made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG).