Earl of Sunderland is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England. The first creation came in 1627 in favour of Emanuel Scrope, 11th Baron Scrope of Bolton. The earldom became extinc
Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, 3rd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, known as the Lord Spencer between 1636 and June 1643, was an English peer, nobleman, and politician from the Spencer family wh
Earl of Sunderland
…extinct or dormant (see Baron Scrope of Bolton for more information on this title). The second creation came in 1643 in favour of the Royalist soldier Henry Spencer, 3rd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton. The Spencer family descended from Sir John Spencer (d. 1522), who acquired the Wormleighton estate in Warwickshire and the Althorp estate in…