Margaret Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey

Margaret Elizabeth Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey, DBE, JP (née Leigh; 29 October 1849 – 22 May 1945), was an English noblewoman, activist, writer and hymn-writer.

They had six children: She was the founding president (1901–1914) of the Victoria League and was known as an opponent of women's suffrage.

Some of these are also included in The Voice of Praise: for Sunday School and home (London S. S. Union) and other collections.

[4] In 1920 she published A brief history of Osterley Park (her husband's seat) and in 1922 Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life.

Having suffered a stroke in 1909, Lord Jersey died at Osterley Park, Middlesex,[6] in May 1915, aged 70.

The Dowager Countess of Jersey, c. 1919
Graves of the 7th (left) and 8th (right) Earls of Jersey in All Saints' parish churchyard, Middleton Stoney , Oxfordshire - Margaret is buried with her husband.