George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon was an English diplomat and statesman from the Villiers family. He served a succession of Whig and Liberal administrations. This included as Viceroy in famine-stricken Ireland and, on the first of three occasions as Foreign Secretary, as the United Kingdom's chief representative at the Congress of Paris which ended the Crimean War.
The Earl of Clarendon to Mr. Adams. Foreign Office, December 30, 1865. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th instant, enclosing further…
Lord Clarendon to Mr. Adams. Foreign Office, London, January 19, 1866. Sir: Her Majesty’s government having had under their consideration in communication with the proper law advisers of the Crown,…
[Circular.] Foreign Office, January 20, 1866. Sir: As it would be a very great convenience to her Majesty’s government to have an assurance that vessels evidently calculated for warlike purposes…