He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating M.A.

in 1837,[1] and became vicar of Kenilworth in that year, rector of St. George's Church, Bloomsbury in 1841, and a canon of St. Paul's Cathedral from 1847 to 1856.

[1] He was the son of George Villiers and Theresa Parker, and grandson of the 1st Earl of Clarendon.

[1] He received a Royal Warrant of Precedence in 1839 entitling him to the rank of an earl's son.

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