Career
Villiers was the son of George Herbert Arthur Hyde Villiers, Lord Hyde (1906-1935) and the Honourable Marion Feodorovna Louise Glyn (1900-1970). Lord Clarendon married Jane Diana Dawson in 1974. They had two children:
George Edward Laurence Villiers, 8th Earl of Clarendon (born 1976)
Lady Sarah Katherine Jane Villiers (born 1977).