Background
SPENCER, Charles Robert Spencer was born on October 30, 1857. Son of 4th Earl by his second wife, Adelaide, daughter of late Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour. 5. half-b. 1910.
SPENCER, Charles Robert Spencer was born on October 30, 1857. Son of 4th Earl by his second wife, Adelaide, daughter of late Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour. 5. half-b. 1910.
Harrow; Trinity College Cambridge (Master of Arts). Master of Arts.
Member of Parliament N. Northamptonshire, 1880-1885. Mid Northamptonshire, 1885-1895. Contested East Hertfordshire, 1898.
Parliamentary Groom-in-Waiting to the Queen, 1886. Vice-Chamberlain, 1892-1895. Member of Parliament (Liberal) Mid Northamptonshire, 1900-1906.
Cartulary-register Viscount AJthorp, 1905. Grand Cross, Danebrog, 1906. Right Honourable Charles Robert Spencer, P.C., Lord Chamberlain to His (or Her) Majesty since 1905; Baron Spencer, Viscount, 1761; Viscount Althorp, 1765; Lord-Lieut, of Northamptonshire, 1872-1908.
Liberal.
Clubs: Brooks's, Marlborough, Turf.
Spouse 1887, Hon. Margaret Baring (d. 1906), daughter of 1st Baron Revelstoke, 1887. Heir: Honourable Albert Edward John Spencer.