Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, was an English nobleman and politician of the Spencer family. An able and gifted statesman, his caustic temper and belief in absolute monarchy nevertheless made
Robert Spencer, Second Earl of Sunderland
Sunderland in Classical Dress, by Carlo Maratta
Anne, Countess of Sunderland
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
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland
…remarkably free from scandal, which won him favour in the more sober post-Revolution state. Robert Spencer was born in Paris in 1641. His father was Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, who was killed at the First Battle of Newbury, and his mother was the Lady Dorothy Sidney, daughter of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester. At the…
Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland
Dorothy Sidney (1617-1684) (Henry Pierce Bone)