Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey Her husband, George Villiers, added the surname Child by royal licence. Lady Jersey married George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, on 23 May 1804, in the drawing room of her house in Berkeley Square. Her husband's mother, Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey (also Lady Jersey), was one of the more notorious mistresses of King George IV when he was Prince of Wales. Her sister Maria married John Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon, later the 4th Earl of Bessborough, a brother of Lady Caroline Lamb. Her own affairs, though conducted discreetly, were said to be numerous: Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston,
Mary Frances Billington of the Society for Women Journalists from 1913 to 1920, and served on the executive council of the Cowdray Club. She served as the only woman delegate to the 1920 Imperial Press Congress when it was held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Mary Frances Billington died at home in London in 1925, a week short of her 63rd birthday. Her remains were buried at the churchyard in Chalbury, with those of her parents and her brothers. Mary Frances Billington Mary Frances Billington (6 September 1862 – 27 August 1925) was an English journalist and writer, whose collected articles on women were