The additional surname of Child

George Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, lived 1773 to 1859.
He served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household under the Duke of Wellington between July and November 1830.
Lord Jersey married Lady Sarah Sophia Fane in 1804.
She was the heiress of her grandfather, Robert Child.
Robert Child was the principal shareholder of the banking firm Child & Co.
George Villiers added the surname Child to the Villiers surname by royal license in 1819.

Was George Villiers required to get a special license to have the Child surname added to his Villiers surname?
 
In 1793, when Sarah Sophia Fane was eight years old, both her mother and her grandmother died. Sarah was left the senior partner of Child & Co., the family bank.
On her 21st birthday in 1806, Sarah inherited an annual income of around 60,000 pounds as well as her grandfather's estate at Osterley Park, Middlesex.
 
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