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 204 SPENCER. P.C., 1830; Chancellor of the Exchequer, a Lord of Trade, and a Couimissr. for Indian Affairs, 1830-34, as also an Oilicial Trustee for the Urit. Museum an<l of the Public Records ; sue. to the title as above, 10 Nov. 1834. He m. 13 April 1811 in London, Esther, da. and h- of Richard AcKI.OM, of Wiseton Hall, Notts, by Elizabeth, sister of Francis, 1st Earl ok Bandon [I ], da. of James Rkiinahd. She, " a fortune of ,£10,000 a year," was b. Sep. 1788, and it. in childbed in London, 11, and was bur. 18 June 1818, at Brington, aged 29. Will pr. 1S19. He <t. s.p. at Wiseton Hall, 1, and was bur. 9 Oct. 1845 at Brington, aged 63-(*J Will pr. Nov. 1S45. IV. 1845. 4- Frederick (Spencer), Earl Spencer &<:., next surv. br. and h.,( b ) being 3d s. of the 2d Karl, k 11 April 1798, at the Admiralty, Whitehall, and bap. at St. Martin's in the fields ; joined the Hoyal Navy, 1811, being in command of " The Talbot " at the battle of Navarino, assistitig at the reduction of Morea Castle in 1828, and becoming eveutually in 1857 N ice Admiral on the reserved list; C.B., 13 Nov. 1827; Knight of St. Louis of France, 182b ; Knight of St. Anne of Russia, 1828, and subsequently (after 30 April 1838) Knight of the Redeemer of Ureece; Ml', for Worcestershire, 1831-32; fur Midhurst, 1832-34, and 1887-41; Equerry to H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, 1840-45; sue. to the peerage, as above, 1 Oct. 1845; P.C., 1S46 ; L. Chamber- lain of the Household, 1846-48 ;. Councillor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1847; CP. LL.D. of Cambridge 5 July 1817; K.G, 2:J March IS 19; L. Steward of the Household, 1854-57. He m. 23 Feb. 1S30, at St. Geo. Han. sq, his second cousin,( c ) Georgian.-! Elizabeth, 2d da. and coheir of William Stephen l'oy.VTZ, of Cowdray, Co. Sussex, by Elizabeth Mary, da. of Anthony Joseph (liitoWNE), 7tli Viscount Montagu, sister and h. ^1 793) of the 8th Viscount. She d. 10 April 1S51, at St. Leonards on Sea. Will pr. June 1851. He m. secondly, 9 Aug. 1S54, at St. James' Westm., Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth, sister of the 1st Bahon AlCBSTRB, Istda. of Col. Sir Horace Beauchamp SevmoUU, K.C.H., by Elizabeth Mallet, da. of Sir Laurence Palk, Bart. He d. 27 Dec. 1857, aged 59, at Althorp. His widow, who was b. 27 Jan. 1825, d. 29 Jan. 1877, at Guilsborough, CO. Northampton. V. 1857. 5. John Poyntz (Spencer), Karl Spencer [1765], Viscount SrENCBR of Altuori' [17811 Viscount Althom- [1765 j, and Baron - SpKNCSH of Althoki' [17o'l], 1st s. and h., being only s. by first wife, 4. 27 Oct. 1S35, at Spencer House, St. James's place ; styled Viscount Althobp, 1845-57 ; ed. at Harrow and at Trin. Coll., Cambridge ; M. A., 1857. He was M.P. (") Distinguished chiedy for " his remarkable bon-homta.it and unalterable good temper" . . . "this good-natured, popular, liked-and-laughed-at good Fellow, more of a Grazier than a Statesman," . . . without one showy accomplishment, without wit to amuse or eloquence to persuade, with a voice uumelodious and a manner ungraceful, and barely able to speak plain sense in still plainer language, exercised in the House of Commons an influence and even a dominion greater than any Leader [e.g., " Pitt the father, Pitt the son, Canning or Castlereagh " J either after or before him. His friends followed this plain simple man with enthusiastic devotion and he possessed the faculty of disarming his political antagonists of all bitterness and animosity towards him." . . . "No man ever died with a fairer character or more generally regretted. ... He was the very model and type of an English gentleman. . . . Modest without diflideuce, con- fident without vanity, ardently desiring the good of his country, without the slightest personal ambition . . . high-minded unaffected sensible well educated . . In his political principles he was consistent, liberal, enlightened." He appears, however, tho' a man of good private character and fair abilities, to have been an exceptionally incon- sistent politician and a poor speaker. [Greville's " Memoirs "] A life of " LORD Althobp" (for by that name he was for more than 30 years, 1802-34, well-known in the agricultural and political world) is written by Ernest Myers ; his portrait ' after Sir G. Hayter" is engraved in " Doyle." (») Of his two elder brothers (1) Richard, b. and bap. 18 Oct. 1789, at Dallington, Northauts, d. at Althorp, 20, and was bur. 23 Jan. 1791, at Brington (2) the Hon, Sir Robert Cavendish Spencer, K.C.H., Capt. R.N., b. at Althorp, 24 Oct., and hp. » Dec. 1791, at Brington, d. unm. 4 Nov. 1830. (<) Her grandfather, William Poyutz, of Midgham, Berks (iC 13 May 1809, aged 75), was br. of the wife of the 1st Earl Spencer.