VILLIERS, CHARLES PELHAM

VILLIERS, CHARLES PELHAM
   reformer, brother of the Earl of Clarendon; bred to the bar; entered Parliament; M.P. for Wolverhampton, which he represented to the end; was an advocate from the first, and one of the sturdiest, for free trade and poor-law reform, and had a marble statue raised in his honour at Wolverhampton before his death (1802-1898).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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