Edward Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon

Edward Hyde Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon, GCB, GCVO, TD, PC, DL (11 February 1846 – 2 October 1914), styled Lord Hyde between 1846 and 1870, was a British Liberal Unionist politician from the Villiers family.

Clarendon was the second but eldest surviving son of the prominent Liberal statesman George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon and his wife Lady Katherine Grimston, daughter of James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam.

Apart from his political career Lord Clarendon joined the Hertfordshire Yeomanry as a Troop Quartermaster in 1868, and was commissioned as a Cornet the following year.

Between 1890 and 1896, Lord Clarendon was a member of the Football Committee at West Hertfordshire Sports Club, chairing some of the meetings.

By his first marriage he had two children: Lord Clarendon died in October 1914, aged 68, and was succeeded in the earldom by his only son George.

Edward Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon in 1865 Punch
Portrait of Clarendon in his uniform as Lord Chamberlain, c.1902.