The Spencers

The Honourable John Spencer, brother of Charles Spencer 3rd Duke of Marlborough inherited the Spencer estates at Althorp (pronounced Althrup) and elsewhere.  JOHN SPENCER was born 13 May 1708, and died 19 June 1746. He married GEORGIANA CAROLINE CARTERET 14 February 1733/34, daughter of JOHN GRANVILLE and FRANCES WORSLEY

i. JOHN SPENCER EARL SPENCER, b. 19 December 1734; d. 31 October 1783.

John Spencer 1st Earl Spencer He married (Margaret) Georgiana Poynz daughter of the Honourable Stephen Poyntz and Anne-Maria Mordaunt.  This Poyntz family were direct descendants of  Sir Robert Poyntz of Acton (abt.)1450-1520 who married Margaret Wydeville (abt.)1455-1520 the illegitimate daughter of Anthony Wydeville, Earl Rivers (abt.) 1440-1483 a brother of Elizabeth Wydeville, Queen of Edward IV, and a patron of Caxton the the early English Printer.  Georgiana Poyntz has also had descents from the Howards of Effingham.  He was born 19 December 1734, and died 31 October 1783.  

Children of JOHN SPENCER and MARGARET POYNTZ are:

i. GEORGIANA SPENCER, b. 7 June 1757; d. 30 March 1806. She married WILLIAM CAVENDISH DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE 5 June 1774, son of WILLIAM DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE and CHARLOTTE CLIFFORD. He was born 14 December 1748, and died 29 July 1811. She also had issue by  CHARLES GREY, 2nd Earl Grey*. Children of GEORGIANA SPENCER and WILLIAM DEVONSHIRE are:

i. GEORGIANA DOROTHY CAVENDISH, d. 8 August 1858.

ii. HARRIET ELIZABETH CAVENDISH, d. 25 November 1862.

iii. WILLIAM GEORGE SPENCER CAVENDISH DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, b. 21 May 1790, Paris; d. 18 January 1858.

ii. GEORGE JOHN SPENCER EARL SPENCER, b. 1 September 1758; d. 10 November 1834.

iii. HARRIET FRANCES SPENCER, b. 1761; d. 1821.. She married FREDERICK 3RD EARL OF BESSBOROUGH. He was born 1758, and died 1844.She had a long term relationship with GRANVILLE LEVESON-GOWER EARL GRANVILLE, son of GRANVILLE STAFFORD and SUSANNAH STEWART. He was born 12 October 1773, and died 1846.  He  subsequently married her neice.

Children of HARRIET SPENCER and FREDERICK BESSBOROUGH are:

iii. JOHN WILLIAM 4TH EARL OF BESSBOROUGH, b. 1781; d. 1847; m. MARIA FANE.

iv. FREDERICK CAVENDISH PONSONBY, b. 1783; m. EMILY BATHURST.

v. WILLIAM FRANCIS SPENCER PONSONBY, b. 1787; d. 1855.

vi. CAROLINE PONSONBY, b. 1785; d. 1828; m. WILLIAM LAMB 2ND VISCOUNT MELBOURNE.  She is known to history as Lady Caroline Lamb and was the mistress of George Byron, Baron Byron, known as Lord Byron the poet and Romantic.

Children of HARRIET SPENCER and GRANVILLE GRANVILLE are:

i. HARRIET EMMA ARUNDEL STEWART, b. 1800; d. 28 October 1852.  She married George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke of Leeds 1802-1872 and had issue.  All subsequent Dukes of Leeds descend from her.

ii. GEORGE ARUNDEL STEWART, b. 1802; d. 1875.

iv. CHARLOTTE SPENCER, b. 1765; d. 1766.

v. LOUISA SPENCER, b. 1769; d. 1769.

GEORGE JOHN SPENCER EARL SPENCER was born 1 September 1758, and died 10 November 1834. He married LAVINIA BINGHAM 6 March 1781, daughter of CHARLES Baron LUCAN and MARGARET SMITH. She was born 27 July 1762, and died 8 June 1831.

Children of GEORGE SPENCERand LAVINIA BINGHAM are:

i. JOHN CHARLES SPENCER EARL SPENCER, b. 30 May 1782; d. 1 October 1845; m. ESTHER ACKLOM, 13 April 1814; b.   September 1788; d. 11 June 1818.

ii. SARAH SPENCER, LADY, b. 1787; d. 13 April 1870.

iii. RICHARD SPENCER, b. 1789.

iv. ROBERT CAVENDISH SPENCER, KCH, b. 1791.

v. GEORGIANA CHARLOTTE SPENCER, b. 1794; m. GEORGE QUINN, b. 1792; d. 1888.

vi. FREDERICK SPENCER EARL SPENCER, b. 14 April 1798; d. 27 December 1857.

vii. GEORGE SPENCER FATHER IGNATIUS, b.  1799; d. 1864.

viii. HARRIET SPENCER, b. 1793; d. 1793.

FREDERICK SPENCER EARL SPENCER was born 14 April 1798, and died 27 December 1857. He married (1) GEORGIANA ELIZABETH POYNTZ 23 February 1830, daughter of WILLIAM POYNTZ and ELIZABETH BROWNE. She was born 27 March 1799, and died 10 April 1851. He married (2) ADELAIDE HORATIA ELIZABETH SEYMOUR 9 August 1854, daughter of HORACE SEYMOUR and ELIZABETH PALK. She was born 27 January 1825, and died 29 October 1877.

Children of FREDERICK SPENCER and GEORGIANA POYNTZ are:

i. JOHN POYNTZ SPENCER EARL SPENCER, b. 27 October 1835; d. 13 August 1910; m. CHARLOTTE FRANCES FREDERICA SEYMOUR, 8 July 1858; b. 28 September 1835; d. 31 October 1903.

ii. GEORGIANA FRANCES SPENCER, b. 1832; d. 1852.

iii. SARAH ISABELLA SPENCER, b. 1838; d. 1919.

Children of FREDERICK SPENCER and ADELAIDE SEYMOUR are:

iv. CHARLES ROBERT SPENCER, EARL SPENCER, b. 30 October 1857; d. 26 September 1922.

v. VICTORIA ALEXANDRINA SPENCER, b. 1855; d. 1906; m. WILLIAM 2ND BARON SANDHURST; b. 1855; d. 1921.

CHARLES ROBERT SPENCER, EARL SPENCER was born 30 October 1857, and died 26 September 1922. He married MARGARET BARING 23 July 1887, daughter of EDWARD BARING, BARON REVELSTOKE and LOUISA BULTEEL. She was born 1868, and died 4 July 1906.

Children of CHARLES SPENCER and MARGARET BARING are:

i. ADELAIDE MARGARET SPENCER, b. 1889; d. 1981; m. SIDNEY CORNWALLIS PEEL, BT.; b. 1870; d. 1938.

ii. ALBERT EDWARD JOHN SPENCER EARL SPENCER, b. 23 May 1892; d. 1975.

iii. CECIL EDWARD ROBERT SPENCER, b. 1894; d. 1928.

iv. LAVINIA EMILY SPENCER, b. 1899; d. 1955; m. LUKE 4TH BARON ANNALY ; b. 1888; d. 1970.

v. GEORGE CHARLES SPENCER, b. 1903; d. 1982.  He married (1) BARBARA BLUMENTHAL . He married (2) KATHLEEN ELIZABETH HENDERSON She died 1968.

vi. ALEXANDRA MARGARET SPENCER, b. 1906; d. 1995; m.HON HENRY DOUGLAS-HOME,in 1931.

ALBERT EDWARD JOHN SPENCER EARL SPENCER was born 23 May 1892, and died 1975. He married LADY CYNTHIA ELINOR BEATRIX HAMILTON, in 1919, daughter of JAMES DUKE OF ABERCORN and HON. ROSALIND BINGHAM. She was born 1897, and died 1972.

Children of ALBERT SPENCER and CYNTHIA HAMILTON are:

i. ANNE SPENCER, b. 1920; m. CPTN CHRISTOPHER BALDWIN WAKE-WALKER,  RN; b. 1920; d. 1998.

ii. EDWARD JOHN SPENCER EARL SPENCER, b. 24 January 1924; d. 29 March 1992.

EDWARD JOHN SPENCER EARL SPENCER was born 24 January 1924, and died 29 March 1992, Buried 1 April 1992. He married (1) FRANCES RUTH BURKE ROCHE 1954 in Westminster Abbey, daughter of EDMUND ROCHE, BARON FERMOY and RUTH GILL. She was born January 1932., and was divorced in 1969. He married (2) RAINE McCORQUODALE in 1976, daughter of ALEXANDER McCORQUODALE and DAME BARBARA CARTLAND . She was born 1929.  She was previously wife of Gerald H Legge 9th Earl of Dartmouth, and subsequently married Count Jean Francois de Chambrun for a short time.

Children of EDWARD SPENCER and FRANCES ROCHE are:

i.  ELIZABETH SARAH LAVINIA SPENCER, b. born  1955. She married NEIL MCCORQUODALE in 1980

Children of ELIZABETH SPENCER and NEIL MCCORQUODALE are:

i.EMILY MCCORQUODALE,bn 1983.

ii.GEORGE MCCORQUODALE, bn 1984.

iii.CELIA MCCORQUODALE, bn  1990.

ii. (CYNTHIA) JANE SPENCER, was born 1957. She married SIR ROBERT FELLOWES, son of SIR WILLIAM FELLOWES.  He was cousin of Colonel Ronald Andrew Ferguson, the father of Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and a leading Royal Courtier.

Children of JANE SPENCER and ROBERT FELLOWES are:

i. LAURA FELLOWES, bn 1982.

ii. ALEXANDER FELLOWES, bn 1984.

iii. ELEANOR FELLOWES, bn 1986.

iii. JOHN SPENCER. 12 Jan 1960

iv. DIANA FRANCES SPENCER, b. 1 July 1961, Park House, Sandingham; d. 31 August 1997, Paris, France. She married CHARLES PHILIP ARTHUR GEORGE PRINCE OF WALES 29 July 1981 in St Paul's Cathedral, London, son of ELIZABETH II QUEEN OF GT BRITAIN and PHILIP DUKE OF EDINBURGH. He was born 14 November 1948 in Buckingham Palace, London.

Children of DIANA SPENCER and CHARLES PRINCE OF WALES are:

i. WILLIAM ARTHUR PHILIP LOUIS OF WALES, b. 21 June 1982, St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington.

ii. HENRY CHARLES ALBERT DAVID OF WALES, b. 15 September 1984, St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London.

v. CHARLES EDWARD MAURICE SPENCER EARL SPENCER, b. 1964.

CHARLES EDWARD MAURICE SPENCER, EARL SPENCER AND VISCOUNT ALTHORP was born 20 May 1964. He married (CATHERINE) VICTORIA LOCKWOOD, daughter of John Lockwood 1989 in Great Brington, Northamptonshire. She was born in 1966 and they divorced in 1997.   Subsequently she has had a child by a Jonathan Aitkin.  Earl Spencer remarried in December 2001 Caroline Hutton, the ex-wife of Matthew Freud, a son of Sir Clement Freud and great-grandson of Dr Sigmund Freud.  She has two children by Freud.  Matthew Freud is now married to Elizabeth Murdoch the daughter of Sir Rupert Murdoch and his wife Anna. 

Children of CHARLES SPENCER and VICTORIA LOCKWOOD are:

i. KITTY ELEANOR SPENCER, bn January 1990.

ii. ELIZA VICTORIA SPENCER, bn 10 July 1992, London.

iii. CATYR AMELIA SPENCER, bn 10 July 1992, London.

iv. LOUIS FREDERICK SPENCER, VISCOUNT ALTHORP, bn 21 March 1994, St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London.

The child of CHARLES SPENCER and CAROLINE HUTTON is:

v. CHARLES EDMUND SPENCER, Bn 6 October 2003

This page is compiled by Timothy J. Owston of York, England.