Sir Francis Hyde Villiers (13 August 1852, London

London

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 – 18 November 1925) was an English

English people

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 civil servant.

Youngest son of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon

George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon

George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon KG, GCB, PC , was an English diplomat and statesman.-Background and education:...

, Villiers entered the Foreign Office in 1870. He was appointed Acting Second Secretary in the Diplomatic Service in 1885, serving as Private Secretary to the Earl of Rosebery

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, KG, PC was a British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister. Between the death of his father, in 1851, and the death of his grandfather, the 4th Earl, in 1868, he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Dalmeny.Rosebery was a Liberal Imperialist who...

 (1886, 1892-94) and Acting Private Secretary to the Marquess of Salisbury (1887). From 1896 to 1906 he was Assistant Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. From 1905 to 1911 he was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal

Portugal

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, and from 1911 to 1919 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Belgium

Belgium

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. He ended his career as Ambassador

Ambassador

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to Belgium from 1919 to 1920.

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