George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer,, styled Viscount Althorp from 1765 to 1783, was a British Whig politician. He served as Home Secretary from 1806 to 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents. He w
Portrait by John Singleton Copley, 1800
George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, portrait in oil by Joshua Reynolds, 1774 - 1776
The St Christopher blockprint, dated 1423
Lady Lavinia Bingham, 1781 (Joshua Reynolds)
John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer, styled Viscount Spencer from 1761–5, was a British peer and politician.
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer
…the Venerable Father Ignatius of St Paul, a Roman Catholic convert to the priesthood. Lord Spencer was born at Wimbledon Park House, London, the son of John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer, and his wife Margaret Georgiana Poyntz, daughter of Stephen Poyntz, and was baptised there on 16 October 1758. His godparents were King George II, the…
The Earl Spencer, by Thomas Gainsborough
Portrait of Spencer and his father, by George Knapton, c. 1744
Portrait of Lord Spencer's three surviving children, Georgiana, George and Henrietta, by Angelica Kauffman, 1774
Spencer House (1752––1754) by John Vardy. Spencer House was the home of the Earls of Spencer until 1895. This is the view from Green Park.