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Earls Spencer (1765)
John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer,
by Thomas Gainsborough
John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer (1734 - 1783) = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Spencer,_1st_Earl_Spencer
George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758 - 1834) = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Spencer,_2nd_Earl_Spencer
John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782 - 1845) = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Spencer,_3rd_Earl_Spencer
Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798 - 1857) = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Spencer,_4th_Earl_Spencer
John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer (1835 - 1910) = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Spencer,_5th_Earl_Spencer
Charles Robert Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer (1857 - 1922)
Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (1892 - 1975)
Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924 - 1992)
Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (b. 1964)
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See also https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=O6wpCuBWz2oC&pg=PT118&lpg=PT118&dq=John+Poyntz+Spencer+wandsworth+common&source=bl&ots=DR1wtQITUJ&sig=ACfU3U0LBbWxylCrtqSjeHI0uvJUSuUU2Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi288Wx8IPnAhVjQ0EAHaXzBscQ6AEwD3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=John%20Poyntz%20Spencer%20wandsworth%20common&f=false
_______________SEE 1869 for stunning attack in the Ballyshannon Herald 26 Jue 1869 etc by Potestants on him as ?? for ireland
[Source: 1869.]
__________________John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, KG, KP, PC (27 October 1835 - 13 August 1910), known as Viscount Althorp from 1845 to 1857 (and also known as the Red Earl because of his distinctive long red beard), was a British Liberal Party politician under, and close friend of, British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. He was twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
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In 1864, Spencer, as lord of the manor of Wimbledon through his ownership of Wimbledon House, attempted to get a private parliamentary bill[16] to enclose Wimbledon Common for the creation of a new park with a house and gardens and to sell part for building. In a landmark decision for English common land, and following an enquiry, permission was refused and a board of conservators was established in 1871[17][18] to take ownership of the common and preserve it in its natural condition.
John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer
John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910), Politician, Lord President of the Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
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A Whig politician who played a prominent role in Liberal politics for almost forty years. Elected MP in 1857, he came to the fore in 1867 during the Second Reform Act which, unlike many in his party, he supported. He was a member of successive Liberal governments, and a member of the cabinet in all except the first. Irish politics came to be a major preoccupation of his political career. As Lord Lieutenant (Viceroy) of Ireland, Spencer was given the difficult task of carrying out the provisions of the Irish Land Acts. In 1892 he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. His shipbuilding programme and steps to improve naval defences were of immense value when the First World War broke out.
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Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)
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SPENCER, JOHN POYNTZ SPENCER, 5th Earl (1835-1010), English statesman, was the son of the 4th Earl and his first wife, a daughter of William Stephen Poyntz, of Cowdray Park, Sussex. Born on the 27th of October 1835, and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a member of parliament for a few months before he succeeded to the earldom in December 1857. His long career as a Liberal politician dates from his acceptance of the office of lord-lieutenant of Ireland under Gladstone in 1868, a post which he retained until 1874. When the Liberals returned to power in 1880 he was appointed lord president of the council, but in 1882 he eittered upon a second term of office as lord-lieutenant of Ireland. The three years during which Earl Spencer now filled this position was a period of exceptional disorder in Ireland, marked by a long series of outrages and conspiracies associated with the "Invincibles," but the courage and firmness which he. then displayed won the admiration of all, and made his adoption of the policy of Home Rule in 1885 an event of considerable interest. In the short Liberal administration of 1886 he was lord-president of the council, and from 1892 to 1895 he was a very capable first lord of the admiralty; it is on record that Gladstone, on retiring in 1904, would have recommended the Queen, if she had consulted him, to summon Lord Spencer to the premiership. From 1002 to 1905 he was the Liberal leader in the House of Lords, and early in 1905, when a change of government was seen to be probable, it was thought in some quarters that he would be the most suitable Liberal prime minister. But his health broke down just at this time, and he took no further part in political life, although he survived until the 13th of August 1910, when he died at Althorp. For forty-five years the earl was a Knight of the Garter; he was lord-lieutenant of Northamptonshire for upwards of thirty years, and he had a reputation as a keen and daring rider to hounds. The fine library, collected at Althorp by the 2nd earl, was sold by him for £250,000 to Mrs Rylands, the widow of a Manchester merchant, and was by her presented to the city of Manchester.
Earl Spencer had no children, and his successor was his half-brother, Charles Robert Spencer (b. 1857), who became the 6th earl. As the Hon. Charles R. Spencer he was one of the parliamentary representatives for Northamptonshire from 1880 to 1895 and again from 1900 to 1905, and was vice-chamberlain of the royal household from 1892 to 1895. In 1905 he was appointed lord chamberlain, and in the same year he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Althorp.