NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821 DNB: Villiers [née Twysden], Frances, countess of Jersey (1753-1821), royal mistress and courtier LBT ID: LyJerse4 VIAF ID: 34402124 LOC ID: nr2003027207 | B/BAP: 1753-02-25 DIED: 1821-07-25 |
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The daughter of Philip Twysden, Bishop of Raphoe; in 1770 she married George Villiers,
fourth Earl of Jersey; she was a mistress of the Prince Regent from 1793 to 1799. | |
REFERENCES TO Frances Villiers, countess of Jersey [née Twysden]: Lady Holland to Eleanor Creevey, [1813] in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Eleanor Creevey, 14 June 1814 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 3 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 18 August 1821 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Lady Morgan to an anonymous correspondent, 1837 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1:
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