English poet and statesman, son of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, brought up in the household of Charles I alongside Charles II and James II. Villiers fought alongside the future Charles II for the royalist effort during the English Civil War, subsequently accompanying Charles into a period of exile prior to the Restoration. Villiers' life ended in poor health and depleted finances, with an embellished image of his end presented by Alexander Pope. His most notable works include The Rehearsal (1671), a satire on Dryden's Conquest of Granada, and his adaptation of Beaumont and Fletcher's The Chances (1682).