William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison (1614-23 September 1643) was an Irish nobleman and Royalist general during the English Civil War.
Biography[]
William Villiers was born in London, Middlesex, England in 1614, the son of Sir Edward Villiers, the older half-brother of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. Villiers grew up mostly in London, where his father was Master of the Mint at the Tower of London, and Villiers inherited the title Viscount Grandison from his uncle in 1630. He served as a colonel during the Bishops' Wars and raised a cavalry regiment for the Royalist cause at the start of the First English Civil War in 1642. Grandison fought at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642 and at the storming of Bristol in 1643, during which he was mortally wounded in the right leg. He died of his wounds in Oxford on 23 September 1643.