The son of the first earl (d. 1787); educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, he was a Tory MP for Christchurch (1774-80), Helston (1780-86).

REFERENCES TO Thomas Villiers, second earl of Clarendon:

Theresa Villiers to Lady Byron, [15 September 1816] in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921)