of his time," succeeded his father, "the Prince of Maccaronies," in 1805, as fifth Earl of Jersey. He was twice Lord Chamberlain to William IV., and twice Master of the Horse to Queen Victoria. He married, in 1804, Lady Sarah Sophia Fane, eldest daughter of John, tenth Earl of Westmorland, and heiress, through her mother,
née
Sarah Anne Child, of the fortune of her grandfather, Robert Child, the banker.
Lady Jersey for many years reigned supreme, by her beauty and wit, in London society,
"the veriest tyrant," said Byron, "that ever governed Fashion's fools, and compelled them to shake their caps and bells as she willed it."
At Almack's, where, according to Gronow (
Reminiscences
, vol. i. p. 32), she introduced the quadrille after Waterloo, she was a despot.
Almack's
, the very clever and personal picture of fashionable life, published in 1826, is dedicated