George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey Antiquaries in 1787. Lord Jersey married Frances Twysden at her stepfather's house in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields on 26 March 1770. Lady Jersey, who was seventeen years younger than her husband, became in 1793 (after she had turned 40 and was more than once a grandmother) one of the more notorious mistresses of George IV when he was still Prince of Wales. Lord and Lady Jersey had ten children: George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey, PC (9 June 1735 – 22 August 1805, Tunbridge Wells) was an English nobleman, peer, politician and
Frances Robinson-Duff Frances Robinson-Duff Frances Robinson-Duff (1878-1951) was an American actress and voice teacher known as "the foremost dramatic coach in America" in the first half of the 20th century. Frances was born in Bangor, Maine, to British mining engineer Colonel Charles Duff (d. circa 1920) and his wife Sarah Robinson (d. 1934), a native of Bangor who, after the couple separated, moved to Chicago and later to Paris, becoming a noted opera singer and singing teacher under the name Sarah Robinson-Duff; her first pupil was future opera star Mary Garden. From an early age, Frances wanted to teach dramatic arts, but