CLARENDON, GEORGE VILLIERS, EARL OF

CLARENDON, GEORGE VILLIERS, EARL OF
   a Whig statesman; served as a cabinet minister under Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell twice, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston, and Mr. Gladstone; held the office of Foreign Secretary under the three preceding; was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland at the time of the potato failure, and represented Britain at the Congress of Paris; died in harness, deeply lamented both at home and abroad (1800-1870).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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