Thomas Villiers Lister

Thomas Villiers Lister was the son of Thomas Henry Lister, Armitage Park, Staffordshire and Lady Maria Theresa Villiers.{{cite book |chapter = LISTER, Sir Thomas Villiers |chapter-url = https://ukga.org/cgi-bin/browse.cgi?action=ViewRec&DB=11&bookID=2&pagecount=445&submit=Go |title = Who was Who, 1897-1916 | page = 431 | publisher = A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. | location = Soho Square, London | year = 1920}}{{cite DNB |wstitle=Lister, Thomas Henry |last=Goodwin |first=Gordon |volume=33}}

Lister was educated at Harrow (Matric. Michs. 1850) and was admitted pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, on 19 October 1849. He graduated M.A. in 1853.{{acad |id=LSTR849TV|name=Lister, Thomas Villiers}}

Lister entered the Foreign Office in 1853 and became Private Secretary to the Earl of Clarendon and précis writer to Lord John Russell. 1n 1853 he was attached to Lord John Russell's mission to Vienna.{{cite book | last = Reid | first = Stuart J. | chapter = Out of harness | chapter-url = http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27553/27553-h/27553-h.htm#Page_348 | title = Lord John Russell | page = 348 | publisher = Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. | location = London | origyear = 1895 | year = 2008}} Two years later he was attached to the Earl of Clarendon's mission to Paris, and in 1861 to Earl Granville's special embassy to Prussia. From 1873 to 1894 he was the Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.{{cite book | chapter = Lister, Thomas Villiers | title = Cambridge University Alumni: 1261-1900 | url = https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=3997 | publisher = Ancestry.com | location = Provo, Utah | year = 2001 | edition = CD-ROM | isbn = 9781888486766 }}

• 1856 Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Edinburgh{{Edinburgh Gazette |issue=6616 |date=22 July 1856 |page=634 |city=e }}
• 1885 Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG){{London Gazette |issue=25484 |date=26 June 1885 |page=2921 }}

In 1862, Lister married Fanny Harriet Coryton, daughter of William Coryton of Pentillie Castle, Cornwall, and Harriet Sophia Parker (later Dowager Countess of Morley). They had seven children:

• Katherine Lister
• Constance Mary Lister
• George Coryton Lister
• Maria Theresa Lister
• Leonard Coryton Lister
• Edmund Algernon Coryton Lister
• Harry Coryton Lister{{cite book | editor-last = Mosley | editor-first = Charles | title = Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 106th edition, Volume 1 | page = 216 | publisher = Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd | location = Crans, Switzerland | year = 1999 | oclc = 772463956}}{{cite book | editor-last = Mosley | editor-first = Charles | title = Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes | page = 330 | publisher = Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd | location = Wilmington, Delaware, US | year = 2003 | oclc = 745497791}}

Fanny died in 1875.{{cite web| last = Freer | first = Alan G. |title = Fanny Harriet Coryton |url = http://www.william1.co.uk/r41.htm#r41l6 |website = william1.co.uk |publisher = The Descendents of William the Conqueror | quote = C1. Fanny Harriet Coryton, + 1875, Md. 1862, Sir Thomas Villiers Lister, K.C.M.G., * 1832, + 1902 |access-date = 13 August 2018}} A memorial window was placed in the church of St. Mary, Plympton, Devon, by Fanny's mother and half-brother, Albert Edmund Parker.{{cite web |title = Plympton St. Mary |url = http://forebears.io/england/devon/plympton#sid16705 |website = forebears.io |publisher = Forebears | quote = The church of St. Mary, restored in 1860, ...... there is another memorial window to Fanny, wife of Sir Thomas Villiers Lister K.C.M.G, placed by the Earl and Dowager Countess of Morley; ...... |access-date = 13 August 2018}}

In 1877 Lister married his second wife Florence Selina Hamilton, daughter of William John Hamilton and Hon. Margaret Frances Florence Dillon. They had five children:

• Mary Florence Lister
• Christine Sibyl Lister
• Margaret Evelyn Lister
• Frederick Hamilton Lister
• Algernon Hamilton Lister

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