Seventeenth Governor of New South Wales.

Born in London in 1845.

Said to be "amiable and well-intentioned" but "very much occupied with his own family."

Supported federation and was the official host at the 1891 Australasian National Convention in Sydney.

Had no major political difficulty during his term.

Tendered his resignation to the secretary of state in November, 1892 because he felt that " the duties and responsibilities of a governor can hardly be called serious nowadays being chiefly of a social character." There was less individual power to his office than he imagined.

He left Sydney to return to England in 1893 and died in 1915.

Chris Cunneen, “Jersey, Sir Victor Albert George Child-Villiers”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 9, ed. Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, pp 484-485.