Historical records matching Vice-Admiral Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer
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About Vice-Admiral Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer
Vice-Admiral Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer KG, CB, PC (14 April 1798 – 27 December 1857), styled The Honourable Frederick Spencer until 1845, was a British naval commander, courtier and Whig politician. He initially served in the Royal Navy and fought in the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence, eventually rising to the rank of Vice-Admiral. He succeeded his elder brother as Earl Spencer in 1845 and held political office as Lord Chamberlain of the Household between 1846 and 1848 and as Lord Steward of the Household between 1854 and 1857. In 1849 he was made a Knight of the Garter. Lord Spencer died at the family seat at Althorp, Brington, Northamptonshire, in December 1857, aged 59, and was succeeded in the earldom by his only son from his first marriage, John, who became a Liberal politician. Spencer's son from his second marriage, Charles, who succeeded in the earldom in 1910, was also a Liberal politician.
Through his second son, Charles, Lord Spencer was the great-great-grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Spencer,_4th_Earl_Spencer
Spencer was born on 14 April 1798 at the Admiralty Building, London, and was baptised in St Martin-in-the-Fields. He was the fifth child born to George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, and Lady Lavinia Bingham. Among his siblings was older brothers John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer (whose wife died in childbirth) and Sir Robert Cavendish Spencer, who died unmarried at sea. His older sister Lady Sarah Spencer was the wife of William Lyttelton, 3rd Baron Lyttelton.
Lord Spencer was twice married. He married firstly his second cousin, Georgiana Poyntz (1799–1851), daughter of William Stephen Poyntz on 23 February 1830. They had three children:
- Lady Georgiana Frances Spencer (1832–1852), who died unmarried.
- John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer (1835–1910), who married Charlotte Seymour, a granddaughter of Vice-Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour and a first cousin of his stepmother Adelaide Seymour.
- Lady Sarah Isabella Spencer (1838–1919), who died unmarried.
After Georgiana's death in 1851 he married, secondly, Adelaide Horatia Seymour (1825–1877), daughter of Sir Horace Seymour and a great-granddaughter of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, on 9 August 1854. They had two children:
- Lady Victoria Alexandrina Spencer (1855–1906), who married William Mansfield, 1st Viscount Sandhurst, and had issue.
- Charles Robert Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer (1857–1922), who married the Hon. Margaret Baring, daughter of Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke.
Citations
https://thepeerage.com/p10105.htm#i101045 cites:
[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/1, page 157. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
[S3409] Caroline Maubois, "re: Penancoet Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 2 December 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Penancoet Family."
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XII/1, page 154.
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XII/1, page 157.
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Vice-Admiral Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer's Timeline
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April 14, 1798
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The Admiralty Building, Whitehall, London, Middlesex, England
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June 5, 1798
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Saint Martins In The Fields, Westminster, Middlesex, England
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June 5, 1798
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St. Martin's In The Fields, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England
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| 1832 |
April 25, 1832
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Spencer House-St James Place-London, Middlesex, England
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| 1835 |
October 27, 1835
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Spencer House, St. James's Place, St. James's, London, England
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| 1838 |
April 7, 1838
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Althorp or Brington, Northampton, England
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| 1841 |
1841
Age 42
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St James, Middlesex, England
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| 1855 |
October 22, 1855
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Dallington, Northamptonshire, England
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