Family and Education
b. 8 May 1747, 3rd s. of Charles, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, and bro. of Lord Charles Spencer. educ. Harrow; Christ Church, Oxf. 1762-5; Grand Tour 1766-8. m. 2 Oct. 1811, Henrietta, da. of Sir Everard Fawkener, wid. of Hon. Edward Bouverie I, s.p.; 1da. illegit.Edward Bouverie, his wife and Lord Robert shared a placid ménage à trois for many years: A. L. Rowse, The Later Churchills, 169-80. On Bouverie’s death, they married: Ward, Letters to ‘Ivy’, 144.
Offices Held
Member of Board of Trade Apr. 1770 – Jan. 1781; jt. vice-treasurer [I] May-July 1782; PC 5 June 1782; surveyor-gen. of woods and forests Feb. 1806 – Mar. 1807.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Woolbeding, nr. Midhurst, Suss.
Volume
Commons 1790-1820
Web Title
SPENCER, Robert (1747-1831)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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