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Villiers</div><br />1614<br /><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">23 September 1643<span style="display:none">(1643-09-23)</span> (aged 29)<br /><a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Christ_Church_Cathedral,_Oxford" title="Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford">Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Mary Bayning (1639–his death)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Palmer,_1st_Duchess_of_Cleveland" title="Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland">Barbara Villiers</a> (1640–1709)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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title="Bishops' Wars">Bishops' Wars</a></b> <br /><b><a href="/wiki/First_English_Civil_War" title="First English Civil War">First English Civil War</a></b> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Edgehill" title="Battle of Edgehill">Edgehill</a>; <a href="/wiki/Storming_of_Bristol" title="Storming of Bristol">Bristol</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison</b> (1614 – 23 September 1643) was an <a href="/wiki/Peerage_of_Ireland" title="Peerage of Ireland">Irish peer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cavalier" title="Cavalier">Royalist</a> soldier who was fatally wounded during the <a href="/wiki/First_English_Civil_War" title="First English Civil War">First English Civil War</a> in 1643. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_details">Personal details</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Gortzius_Geldorp_-_Portrait_of_Sir_Edward_Villiers_%28c.1585%E2%80%931626%29.jpg/270px-Gortzius_Geldorp_-_Portrait_of_Sir_Edward_Villiers_%28c.1585%E2%80%931626%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Gortzius_Geldorp_-_Portrait_of_Sir_Edward_Villiers_%28c.1585%E2%80%931626%29.jpg/360px-Gortzius_Geldorp_-_Portrait_of_Sir_Edward_Villiers_%28c.1585%E2%80%931626%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="544" data-file-height="685" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sir_Edward_Villiers" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Edward Villiers">Sir Edward Villiers</a> (1585–1626)</figcaption></figure></div> <p>William Villiers was born in 1614, eldest son of <a href="/wiki/Sir_Edward_Villiers" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Edward Villiers">Sir Edward Villiers</a> (1585–1626) and Barbara St. John (ca 1592–1672). His father was the older half-brother of <a href="/wiki/George_Villiers,_1st_Duke_of_Buckingham" title="George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham">George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham</a>, favourite of both <a href="/wiki/James_VI_and_I" title="James VI and I">James VI and I</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I</a>, a relationship from which he greatly benefitted. Appointed <a href="/wiki/Lord_President_of_Munster" title="Lord President of Munster">Lord President of Munster</a>, he died in <a href="/wiki/Cork_(city)" title="Cork (city)">Cork</a> in 1626, leaving enormous debts; his wife was still repaying them in the 1660s.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThrush2004_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThrush2004-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of ten children, Villiers' siblings included Anne (1610–1654), <a href="/wiki/John_Villiers,_3rd_Viscount_Grandison" title="John Villiers, 3rd Viscount Grandison">John</a> (1616–1659), <a href="/wiki/George_Villiers,_4th_Viscount_Grandison" title="George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison">George</a> (1618–1699), Barbara (1618–1681) and <a href="/wiki/Edward_Villiers_(1620%E2%80%931689)" title="Edward Villiers (1620–1689)">Edward</a> (1620–1689). The Villiers were a powerful and well connected family; William's relatives included <a href="/wiki/John_Villiers,_1st_Viscount_Purbeck" title="John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck">John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Villiers,_1st_Earl_of_Anglesey" title="Christopher Villiers, 1st Earl of Anglesey">Christopher Villiers, 1st Earl of Anglesey</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Susan_Feilding,_Countess_of_Denbigh" title="Susan Feilding, Countess of Denbigh">Susan Feilding</a>, who was <a href="/wiki/Lady_of_the_Bedchamber" title="Lady of the Bedchamber">Lady of the Bedchamber</a> to <a href="/wiki/Henrietta_Maria_of_France" title="Henrietta Maria of France">Queen Henrietta Maria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECokayne191237_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECokayne191237-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1639, Grandison married Mary Bayning (1623–1672), heiress to a fortune of £180,000; they had one daughter, <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Palmer,_1st_Duchess_of_Cleveland" title="Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland">Barbara Villiers</a> (1640–1709), who was later mistress to <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrews19716_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews19716-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After his death, Mary married his cousin Christopher Villiers, Second Earl of Anglesey (1625–1661).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPollard2004_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPollard2004-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Villiers,_2nd_Viscount_Grandison&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Villiers grew up mostly in London, where his father was <a href="/wiki/Master_of_the_Mint" title="Master of the Mint">Master of the Mint</a>, a post which gave him rooms at the <a href="/wiki/Tower_of_London" title="Tower of London">Tower of London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThrush2004_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThrush2004-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 23 June 1623, when his childless great-uncle <a href="/wiki/Oliver_St_John,_1st_Viscount_Grandison" title="Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison">Oliver St John</a> (1559–1630) was created <a href="/wiki/Viscount_Grandison" title="Viscount Grandison">Viscount Grandison</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Peerage_of_Ireland" title="Peerage of Ireland">peerage of Ireland</a>, the honour was made subject to a <a href="/wiki/Special_remainder" class="mw-redirect" title="Special remainder">special remainder</a> that it would be inherited by the heirs male of St John's niece Barbara Villiers. This meant when St John died in December 1630, Villiers inherited his title.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDebrett183791_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDebrett183791-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="float:right;clear:right"><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Villiers,_Vicount_Grandisson.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/William_Villiers%2C_Vicount_Grandisson.JPG/180px-William_Villiers%2C_Vicount_Grandisson.JPG" decoding="async" width="180" height="277" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/William_Villiers%2C_Vicount_Grandisson.JPG/270px-William_Villiers%2C_Vicount_Grandisson.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/William_Villiers%2C_Vicount_Grandisson.JPG/360px-William_Villiers%2C_Vicount_Grandisson.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1429" data-file-height="2201" /></a><figcaption>Grandison by <a href="/wiki/Pieter_van_Gunst" title="Pieter van Gunst">Pieter van Gunst</a>, c. 1714</figcaption></figure></div> <p>In 1638 <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I</a> <a href="/wiki/Knight" title="Knight">knighted</a> Grandison at <a href="/wiki/Windsor,_Berkshire" title="Windsor, Berkshire">Windsor</a>, together with the <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Prince of Wales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bruce,_1st_Earl_of_Elgin" title="Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin">Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 1639 and 1640 <a href="/wiki/Bishops%27_Wars" title="Bishops' Wars">Bishops' Wars</a>, he was commissioned as <a href="/wiki/Colonel" title="Colonel">Colonel</a> but does not appear to have seen action.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBCW_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBCW-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the <a href="/wiki/First_English_Civil_War" title="First English Civil War">First English Civil War</a> began in August 1642, Grandison raised a regiment of cavalry, which formed part of the <a href="/wiki/Cavalier" title="Cavalier">Royalist</a> left wing at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Edgehill" title="Battle of Edgehill">Edgehill</a> on 23 October. During the fighting, <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Verney_(Cavalier)" title="Edmund Verney (Cavalier)">Sir Edmund Verney</a> was killed and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Standards_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Standards of England">Royal Standard</a> captured but then recovered by three men led by <a href="/wiki/John_Smith_(banneret)" title="John Smith (banneret)">John Smith</a>, an officer in Grandison's regiment. Smith was knighted on the field, becoming the last knight <a href="/wiki/Banneret" class="mw-redirect" title="Banneret">banneret</a> created in England, and promoted to major by Grandison; he was later killed at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cheriton" title="Battle of Cheriton">Cheriton</a> in 1644.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarlton1992192–193_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarlton1992192–193-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the <a href="/wiki/Storming_of_Bristol" title="Storming of Bristol">Storming of Bristol</a> on 26 July 1643, Grandison led one of three <a href="/wiki/Brigades" class="mw-redirect" title="Brigades">brigades</a> or "tertia" commanded by <a href="/wiki/Prince_Rupert_of_the_Rhine" title="Prince Rupert of the Rhine">Prince Rupert of the Rhine</a>. His unit made a series of attacks on Prior's Hill Fort and a redoubt at Stokes Croft, in the third of which he was wounded in the right leg.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFirthLeslie1925190_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFirthLeslie1925190-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> together with his cousin Edward St John, a son of his uncle <a href="/wiki/Sir_John_St_John,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir John St John, 1st Baronet">Sir John St John</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dcw_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dcw-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Grandison was taken to Oxford where he died on 29 September, presumably of a fever related to the injury, since Hyde explicitly states the wound caused his death.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClarendon1717299_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClarendon1717299-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As Grandison had no son, he was succeeded by a younger brother, John Villiers. After the <a href="/wiki/Restoration_(England)" class="mw-redirect" title="Restoration (England)">Restoration</a>, Grandison's only child, Barbara Villiers, became a <a href="/wiki/Royal_mistress" title="Royal mistress">royal mistress</a> of <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">King Charles II</a>, in 1670 was created <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Cleveland" title="Duke of Cleveland">Duchess of Cleveland</a>, and became the ancestor of several noble families, including the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Grafton" title="Duke of Grafton">Dukes of Grafton</a>. Grandison's mother, Barbara Lady Villiers, born about 1592, lived into her eighties and saw <a href="/wiki/Restoration_(England)" class="mw-redirect" title="Restoration (England)">the Restoration</a> and the early years of her great-grandchildren.<sup id="cite_ref-thrush_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thrush-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lord Grandison's youngest brother, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Villiers_(1620-1689)" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Villiers (1620-1689)">Edward</a>, was the father of <a href="/wiki/Edward_Villiers,_1st_Earl_of_Jersey" title="Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey">Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-thrush_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thrush-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the present-day Viscount Grandison is his descendant, <a href="/wiki/William_Child-Villiers,_10th_Earl_of_Jersey" class="mw-redirect" title="William Child-Villiers, 10th Earl of Jersey">William Villiers</a> (born 1976), a film executive.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lydiard_portrait">Lydiard portrait</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Villiers,_2nd_Viscount_Grandison&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Lydiard portrait"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A portrait of Grandison survived at <a href="/wiki/Lydiard_Park#Lydiard_House" title="Lydiard Park">Lydiard House</a>, his mother's family home in Wiltshire, as of 2006. It is catalogued as by the school of <a href="/wiki/Anthony_van_Dyck" title="Anthony van Dyck">Anthony van Dyck</a>. At the bottom right of the canvas is the name "L<small>D</small>. GRANDISSON".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This painting was engraved about 1714 by <a href="/wiki/Pieter_van_Gunst" title="Pieter van Gunst">Pieter van Gunst</a>, who identified it as "William Villiers, Vicount Grandisson, Father to ye Late Duchesse of Cleaveland", with the attribution "<a href="/wiki/Anthony_van_Dyck" title="Anthony van Dyck">A v. Dyk</a> pinx".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Maria_Theresa_Lewis" title="Maria Theresa Lewis">Theresa Lewis</a>, in her <i>Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon</i> (1852), gives an unmistakable description of this portrait and reports that two copies of it then existed, one owned by the <a href="/wiki/Henry_FitzRoy,_5th_Duke_of_Grafton" title="Henry FitzRoy, 5th Duke of Grafton">Duke of Grafton</a>, a direct descendant of Grandison's, and the other by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Wentworth-Fitzwilliam,_5th_Earl_Fitzwilliam" title="Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam">Earl Fitzwilliam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Another_portrait">Another portrait</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Villiers,_2nd_Viscount_Grandison&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Another portrait"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div style="float:right;clear:right"><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Anthonis_van_Dyck_-_Portrait_of_Henri_II_de_Lorraine.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Anthonis_van_Dyck_-_Portrait_of_Henri_II_de_Lorraine.jpg/170px-Anthonis_van_Dyck_-_Portrait_of_Henri_II_de_Lorraine.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="287" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Anthonis_van_Dyck_-_Portrait_of_Henri_II_de_Lorraine.jpg/255px-Anthonis_van_Dyck_-_Portrait_of_Henri_II_de_Lorraine.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Anthonis_van_Dyck_-_Portrait_of_Henri_II_de_Lorraine.jpg/340px-Anthonis_van_Dyck_-_Portrait_of_Henri_II_de_Lorraine.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2035" data-file-height="3435" /></a><figcaption>The Whitney Van Dyck</figcaption></figure></div> <p>A similar but more sumptuous portrait of a young man, also known as Viscount Grandison, said to have belonged to <a href="/wiki/George_Villiers,_2nd_Duke_of_Buckingham" title="George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham">George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham</a>, was at <a href="/wiki/Stocks_House" title="Stocks House">Stocks Park</a>, Hertfordshire,<sup id="cite_ref-cust_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cust-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before being exhibited at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Academy">Royal Academy</a> in 1893 as the property of Arthur Kay, Esq. After that it was sold to H. O. Miethke, who quickly sold it to Jacob Herzog of Vienna. Exhibited as "William Villiers, Viscount Grandison", this had a great impact at a Van Dyck Tercentenary Exhibition at Antwerp in 1899, and in 1901 the portrait was bought by <a href="/wiki/William_Collins_Whitney" title="William Collins Whitney">William Collins Whitney</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who paid $125,000 for it. This was the second-highest price ever attached to a painting at the time, defeated only by <a href="/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Millet" title="Jean-François Millet">Millet</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Angelus_(painting)" title="The Angelus (painting)">Angelus</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Still named as a portrait of Grandison, it went on to create a sensation at the Van Dyck Loan Exhibition at <a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a> in 1929, and in 1932, on the death of <a href="/wiki/H._P._Whitney" class="mw-redirect" title="H. P. Whitney">H. P. Whitney</a>, was inherited by his widow <a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Vanderbilt_Whitney" title="Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney">Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-apollo_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-apollo-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1948 <a href="/wiki/Cornelius_Vanderbilt_Whitney" title="Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney">Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney</a> gave it to the <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art" title="National Gallery of Art">National Gallery of Art</a> in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The art historian <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Cust" title="Lionel Cust">Lionel Cust</a>, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, suggested in 1905 that the Whitney portrait was of another man, and might be a likeness of the younger brother of Grandison, John Villiers, who became the third Viscount in 1643.<sup id="cite_ref-cust_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cust-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A more powerful identification was made in the 1940s, when an early 18th century drawing of the painting by <a href="/wiki/Louis_Boudan" title="Louis Boudan">Louis Boudan</a> was found, marked as <a href="/wiki/Henry_II,_Duke_of_Guise" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry II, Duke of Guise">Henry de Lorraine, duc de Guise</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The National Gallery of Art now attaches that name to it.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Villiers,_2nd_Viscount_Grandison&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Lord Grandison, whose loss can never be enough lamented. He was a young Man of so virtuous a habit of mind that no temptation or provocation could corrupt him; so great a Lover of Justice and integrity, that no example, necessity, or even the barbarity of this War, could make him swerve from the most precise Rules of it; and of that rare Piety and Devotion, that the Court, or Camp, could not shew a more faultless Person, or to whose example young Men might more reasonably conform themselves".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClarendon1717299_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClarendon1717299-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Villiers,_2nd_Viscount_Grandison&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEThrush2004-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThrush2004_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThrush2004_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThrush2004">Thrush 2004</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECokayne191237-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECokayne191237_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCokayne1912">Cokayne 1912</a>, p. 37.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews19716-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrews19716_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAndrews1971">Andrews 1971</a>, p. 6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPollard2004-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPollard2004_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPollard2004">Pollard 2004</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDebrett183791-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDebrett183791_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDebrett1837">Debrett 1837</a>, p. 91.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.folger.edu/html/folger_institute/cultural_stress/court_masque.html">Sites of Cultural Stress from Reformation to Revolution: The Masque</a> (<a href="/wiki/Folger_Shakespeare_Library" title="Folger Shakespeare Library">Folger Institute</a>, 2004, |accessed 19 September 2018</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBCW-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBCW_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBCW">BCW</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECarlton1992192–193-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarlton1992192–193_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarlton1992">Carlton 1992</a>, pp. 192–193.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFirthLeslie1925190-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFirthLeslie1925190_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFirthLeslie1925">Firth & Leslie 1925</a>, p. 190.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-dcw-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-dcw_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">David C. Wallace, <i>Twenty-Two Turbulent Years 1639-1661</i>, p. 28</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEClarendon1717299-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClarendon1717299_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClarendon1717299_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFClarendon1717">Clarendon 1717</a>, p. 299.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-thrush-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-thrush_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-thrush_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-28288">"The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"</a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i> (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F28288">10.1093/ref:odnb/28288</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-861412-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-861412-8"><bdi>978-0-19-861412-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Oxford+Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.btitle=Oxford+Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.edition=online&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F28288&rft.isbn=978-0-19-861412-8&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxforddnb.com%2Fview%2F10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F9780198614128.001.0001%2Fodnb-9780198614128-e-28288&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Villiers%2C+2nd+Viscount+Grandison" class="Z3988"></span> <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(Subscription or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public">UK public library membership</a> required.)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Mosley_(genealogist)" title="Charles Mosley (genealogist)">Charles Mosley</a>, ed., <i>Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood</i> (107th edition, Burke's Peerage & Gentry (2003), pp. 2095–2097, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9711966-2-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-9711966-2-1">0-9711966-2-1</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Christopher Wright, Catherine May Gordon, <i>British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: an Index</i> (Yale University Press, 2006), p. 316</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Lydiard Park and Church</i> (Borough of Thamesdown), p. 10</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200376/BibliographicResource_3000136357864.html">William Villiers, Vicount Grandisson, Father to ye Late Duchesse of Cleveland, Anthony van Dyck</a> at europeana.eu, accessed 9 January 2018</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Maria_Theresa_Lewis" title="Maria Theresa Lewis">Theresa Lewis</a> <i>Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon: Illustrative of Portraits in His Gallery</i>, Volume 3 (J. Murray, 1852), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fnQHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA316">p. 316</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-cust-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-cust_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cust_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Cust" title="Lionel Cust">Lionel Cust</a>, <i>Anthony Van Dyck: An Historical Study of His Life and Works</i>, p. 138 : "A portrait of a young man in a similar dress, called Viscount Grandison, formerly at Stocks Park, Hertfordshire, and now in the possession of M. Hertzog at Vienna, evidently represents another young Cavalier, perhaps his brother, John Villiers, who succeeded as third Viscount Grandison.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Living Age</i>, Volume 233 (1902), p. 334: "Mr. Whitney's rich and ever-growing collection includes – to mention only his most enviable possession – the enchanting full length "Willlam Villiers, Viscount Grandison" by Van Dyck, which used to hang almost unnoticed in a quiet English country house; then suddenly not only took Van Dyck students but the world by storm when, as the property of Herr Hertzog of Vienna, it appeared at the Commemorative Van Dyck Exhibition."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1902) : "The full-length portrait of William de Villiers, Viscount Grandison, by Van Dyck, which figured at the Antwerp exhibition of the works of the master in 1899, has been purchased by William C. Whitney, of New York, for $125,000, the highest price paid in America for a picture, excepting Millet's Angelus. It was originally in the possession of the Buckingham family, from whom it passed to Lady Grey and to Jacob Herzog, of Vienna, who exhibited it in 1899."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-apollo-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-apollo_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Apollo</i> Volume 22 (1976), p. 91 : "ONE of the outstanding items in the great Van Dyck Loan Exhibition at Detroit, U.S.A., in 1929, was beyond question the sumptuous "William Villiers, Viscount Grandison," the property of Mr. Harry Payne Whitney, of New York (Fig. I). It seems to have created something of a sensation, as indeed it had already done in the Van Dyck Tercentenary Exhibition (Antwerp, 1899) and earlier in the Winter Exhibition of 1893 at our Royal Academy. And no wonder : for, while others of the master's portraits may excel in dignity, sublety or power, as a display of sheer bravura it is perhaps unrivalled. One is accordingly rather surprised to find that not a tittle of positive documentary evidence has been put forward hitherto as to either authorship or subject. Even the attribution to Van Dyck rests solely on aesthetic grounds ; but the best critical opinion seems unanimous in accepting the work unreservedly as an authentic masterpiece from his hand. Far otherwise is it with the proposed identification of the sitter : he has only been accepted as "Grandison" provisionally and with notable reservations... After being exhibited (according to the catalogue) at the Royal Academy in 1893 by " Arthur Kay, Esq.," it passed in rapid succession to H. O. Miethke and Jacob Herzog of Vienna. Thence, in 1901, it was acquired by Mr. W. C. Whitney of New York, and so came to Mr. H. P. Whitney, to whose widow it now belongs. I have been quite unable to locate it — in England — further back than the XIXth century."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Pallas: International Art and Archaeology News Bulletin</i> (1948), p. 28</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Connoisseur</i> Volumes 122-123 (1948), p. 42 : "The Whitney Van Dyck was, during its long ownership in England, known as the portrait of William Villiers, Viscount Grandison... The definite identification of the subject was made only recently when the late Mr. Francis M. Kelly discovered in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris a contemporary drawing of it by Louis Boudan inscribed in a contemporary hand : Henry de Lorraine, duc de Guise."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Huntington Cairns, John Walker, <i>Treasures from the National Gallery of Art</i> (1962), p. 84</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Villiers,_2nd_Viscount_Grandison&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAndrews1971" class="citation book cs1">Andrews, Allen (1971). <i>The Royal Whore: Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine</i>. Hutchinson. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0091070403" title="Special:BookSources/978-0091070403"><bdi>978-0091070403</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Royal+Whore%3A+Barbara+Villiers%2C+Countess+of+Castlemaine&rft.pub=Hutchinson&rft.date=1971&rft.isbn=978-0091070403&rft.aulast=Andrews&rft.aufirst=Allen&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Villiers%2C+2nd+Viscount+Grandison" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBCW" class="citation web cs1">BCW (6 May 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wiki.bcw-project.org/bishops-wars/english-horse-regiments/lord-grandison">"Lord Grandison's Regiment of Horse"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Lord+Grandison%27s+Regiment+of+Horse&rft.date=2021-05-06&rft.au=BCW&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.bcw-project.org%2Fbishops-wars%2Fenglish-horse-regiments%2Flord-grandison&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Villiers%2C+2nd+Viscount+Grandison" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCarlton1992" class="citation book cs1">Carlton, Charles (1992). <i>Going to the Wars; The experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638-1651</i>. 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