Background
Spencer was born at 32, Albemarle Street, London, the son of Francis Spencer, 2nd Baron Churchill, and his wife Jane.
Spencer was born at 32, Albemarle Street, London, the son of Francis Spencer, 2nd Baron Churchill, and his wife Jane.
Eton College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
He was a Page of Honour to Queen Victoria from 1876 to 1881, and in 1886 he succeeded to his father"s title of Baron Churchill. Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards. Spencer was a Lord in Waiting from 1889 to 1892 and 1895 to 1905 in both of Salisbury"s governments and was created Viscount Churchill, of Rolleston in the County of Leicester, on 14 July 1902.
He was also chairman and director of several transport companies, including the Great Western Railway 1908-1934 and was the longest serving chairman of the company, the British India Steamship Company, P&O and the Grand Union Canal.
Lord Churchill married Lady Verena Maud Lowther, daughter of Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale, at Cottesmore, Rutland, on 1 January 1887. They had four children.
The couple were divorced in 1927. They had two children.
He died of pneumonia on 3 January 1934.