Men-at-the-Bar/Villiers, Rt. Hon. Charles Pelham

by Joseph Foster

Villiers, Rt. Hon. Charles Pelham, P.C, M.P. Wolverhampton since 1835 (elected South Lancashire in 1847), M.A., St. John's Coll., Camb., 1827, an examiner in chancery 1833-52, judge advocate-general 1852-8, president of the Poor Law Board 1859-66, J.P., D.L. Herts, P.C. 1853, raised to the rank of an earl's son by royal warrant 1839, was a commissioner of inquiry into the operation of the poor laws, a student of Lincoln's Inn 13 May, 1823 (then aged 21), called to the bar 25 May, 1827 (3rd son of Hon. George Villiers, M.P.); born 3 Jan., 1802 (see Foster's Peerage, E. Clarendon).

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