Background
Born the third son of Francis Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill, Spencer was commissioned into the 43rd Light Infantry in 1825.
Born the third son of Francis Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill, Spencer was commissioned into the 43rd Light Infantry in 1825.
He was given command of the 44th Regiment of Foot in 1845 and led that regiment at the Battle of Alma, at the Battle of Inkerman and at the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. He became commander of a brigade at Aldershot in 1856, General Officer Commanding a division of the Madras Army in 1860 and General Officer Commanding Western District in the United Kingdom in 1866. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army in 1869 before retiring in 1875.
He died on 28 August 1893 and was buried at Brompton Cemetery in London.
One of Spencer"s grandsons was the Reverend Canon Henry Spencer Stephenson, Chaplain to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth World War II
Sir Augustus Almeric Spencer Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (25 March 1807 - 28 August 1893) was a British Army officer and a member of the Spencer family.