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• Hereditary Title: 4th Baron
• Hereditary Title: 4th Earl
• Hereditary Title: 4th Viscount
• Hereditary Title: 4th Viscount
• Education: From 1808 to 1811, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England

Notes:

Frederick Spencer, fourth Earl Spencer (1798–1857), naval officer, born on 14 April 1798, entered the navy on 18 September 1811. After serving as lieutenant under his brother in the Owen Glendower, Spencer commanded the brig Alacrity on the South American station. After promotion to captain on 26 August 1826, he was appointed to the frigate Talbot; he commanded her with distinction at the battle of Navarino on 20 October 1827, and in subsequent operations on the coast of the Morea. For these services he was made a CB (13 November 1827) and was decorated by the kings of France and Greece, and by the tsar. On 23 February 1830 he married his second cousin, Elizabeth Georgina (d. 10 April 1851), daughter of William Stephen Poyntz MP, of Cowdray Park, Midhurst. They had three children; the only son, John Poyntz Spencer, later became the fifth Earl Spencer.

In 1831 Spencer was MP for Worcestershire, and afterwards for Midhurst (between 1832 and 1834, and 1837 and 1841). On the death of his eldest brother, he succeeded as fourth Earl Spencer, on 1 October 1845. From 1846 to 1848 he was lord chamberlain of the queen's household; he was made a KG on 23 March 1849, and in 1854 was appointed lord steward. On 9 August 1854 he married Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth (d. 29 Oct 1877), daughter of Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour. They had two children: Charles Robert became in 1910 the sixth Earl Spencer. A lifelong whig, Spencer was regarded by his children as a serious and reserved man. He died a vice-admiral on the retired list on 27 December 1857.

Frederick married Countess Georgiana Elizabeth Poyntz on 23 Feb. 1830 in St. George's Street, Mayfair, London, England. Georgiana was born on 27 March 1799; died on 10 April 1851 in St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frederick married Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth Seymour on 9 Aug. 1854 in St. James's, London, England. Adelaide was born on 27 Jan. 1825; died on 29 Oct. 1877 in Guilsborough, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Hereditary Title: 5th Baron
• Hereditary Title: 5th Viscount
• Hereditary Title: 5th Viscount
• Hereditary Title: Viscount
• Education: From 1848 to 1854, Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England
• Education: From 1854 to 1857, Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
• Graduation: 1857, Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Notes:

Gibbs writes, "He supported Gladstone's proposals for granting Home Rule to Ireland, and, from his experience of that country and its politicians his adhesion carried consideable weight. 'I question very much whether Lord Spencer was at heart a Home Ruler. By nature obstinate and inflexible, ... his conversion to Home Rule seemed as remarkable in its way as Sir William Harcourt's. It could only be explained by personal loyalty to Mr. Gladstone, and out and out loyalty to party ... In conversation, or on his feet in the House of Lords, he seemed to me to have no command of happy expression ... I should think that, with all his great qualities of industry, devotion to the public service and personal integrity, Lord Spencer was wanting in ... "vision." ' As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland he displayed courage and firmness in the suppression of criminal conspiracy, which brought down on him showers of Nationalist abuse; it was at the beginning of his second term of office that the Chief Secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, was assassinated. In private life he was an upright, high minded man with pleasing manners and a keen sportsman, being thrice Master of the Pytchley."

Graduation:
Master of Arts (M.A.)

Died:
from cerebral seizure, without issue

John married on 8 July 1858 in St. James's, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Victoria married on 20 July 1881. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Education: Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England
• Hereditary Title: 1st Viscount
• Hereditary Title: 6th Baron
• Hereditary Title: 6th Viscount
• Hereditary Title: 6th Viscount
• Graduation: Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Notes:

Graduation:
Master of Arts (M.A.)

Charles married Hon. Margaret Baring on 23 July 1887. Margaret (daughter of Edward Charles (Baring), 1st Baron Revelstoke of Membland and Baroness Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel) was born on 14 Dec. 1868; died on 4 July 1906. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adelaide married on 9 April 1914. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Education: Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England
• Graduation: 1913, Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
• Hereditary Title: 1910 – 1922; Viscount Althorp [courtesy title]
• Hereditary Title: 26 Sept. 1922; 2nd Viscount Althorp [U.K., 1905]
• Hereditary Title: 26 Sept. 1922; 7th Baron Spencer of Althorp [G.B., 1761]
• Hereditary Title: 26 Sept. 1922; 7th Viscount Althorp [G.B., 1765]
• Hereditary Title: 26 Sept. 1922; 7th Viscount Spencer of Althorp [G.B., 1761]
• Graduation: 1946, Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Notes:

Graduation:
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Graduation:
Master of Arts (M.A.)

Albert married Lady Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Hamilton on 26 Feb. 1919. Cynthia (daughter of James Albert Edward (Hamilton), 3rd Duke of Abercorn and Lady Rosaline Cecilia Caroline Bingham) was born on 16 Aug. 1897 in 111, Park Street, London, Middlesex, England; died on 4 Dec. 1972. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
from a riding accident

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• Hereditary Title: Lady

Lavinia married on 9 April 1919. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Education: Royal Naval College, Osborne, Isle of Wight, England
• Education: Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon, England

George married on 13 June 1931, and was divorced in 1962. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married on 9 Nov. 1966. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexandra married on 7 July 1931, and was divorced in 1947. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Hereditary Title: Lady
• Residence: 2000, East Bergholt Lodge, Suffolk, England

Anne married on 10 Feb. 1944. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Education: Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England
• Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Berkshire, England
• Education: Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England
• Hereditary Title: 3rd Viscount
• Hereditary Title: 8th Baron
• Hereditary Title: 8th Viscount
• Hereditary Title: 8th Viscount
• Hereditary Title: Viscount
• Office: From 1947 to 1950; Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of South Australia

Edward married Hon. Frances Ruth Burke Roche on 1 June 1954 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England, and was divorced in 1969. Frances (daughter of Edmund Maurice Burke (Roche), 4th Baron Fermoy and Baroness Ruth Sylvia Gill) was born on 20 Jan. 1936 in Sandringham, Norfolk, England; died on 3 June 2004. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Raine McCorquodale on 14 July 1976 in Caxton Hall Register Office, London, England. Raine was born on 9 Sept. 1929. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]