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John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer, PC, DL, FRS (30 May 1782 – 1 October 1845), styled Viscount Althorp from 1783 to 1834, was a British statesman and abolitionist. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne from 1830 to 1834.
Biography. Following the death of his rakish elder brother in September 1688, Spencer became heir to the 2nd Earl of Sunderland, one of the most adept politicians of the age. Styled Lord Spencer, he was too young to be tainted with his father’s (and elder brother’s) conversion to Rome in 1687. Indeed, John Evelyn in 1688 professed him ‘a ...
Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland. by John Simon, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt mezzotint, 1724 (1720) NPG D4078
Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland was the second, but only surviving, son of Robert, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, and Anne, youngest daughter of George Digby, Earl of Bristol. When his father fled to Holland in 1688, Charles went with him, and remained some time at Utrecht with his tutor to study the customs and laws of the Dutch.
Charles Spencer, 3. Earl of Sunderland KG (* 1674 ; † 9. April 1722 in London ) war ein englischer Politiker und Staatsmann, der vor allem durch seine Verstrickung in den Südseeschwindel ( South Sea Bubble ) bekannt wurde, den ersten großen Börsenkrach der europäischen Geschichte.
3 de sept. de 2021 · (1674–1722).Whig politician. Son of the 2nd earl, he entered Parliament in 1695 and shone as a gifted Whig spokesman. His marriage in 1700 to a daughter of the Marlboroughs enhanced his political connections, and it was to the duchess and Lord Treasurer Godolphin that he owed his appointment as secretary of state (southern department) in 1706.
When Lord Charles Spencer 3rd Earl of Sunderland was born on 23 April 1675, in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, his father, Robert Spencer 2nd Earl of Sunderland, was 33 and his mother, Lady Anne Digby, was 29. He married Lady Arabella Cavendish on 12 January 1694, in England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
