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| George SPENCER (1739 - 1817) |
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George SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1766 - 1840) |
George SPENCER (1739 - 1817) + Caroline RUSSELL (1743 - 1811) |
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| b. 26 Jan 1739 |
| +. Caroline RUSSELL (1743 - 1811) |
| d. 29 Jan 1817 aged 78 |
| Children (1): |
| George SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1766 - 1840) |
| Grandchildren (1): |
| George SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1793 - 1857) |
| Events in George SPENCER (1739 - 1817)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 26 Jan 1739 | George SPENCER was born | ||||
| 06 Mar 1766 | 27 | Birth of son George SPENCER-CHURCHILL | |||
| 1811 | 72 | Death of wife Caroline RUSSELL (aged 68) | |||
| 29 Jan 1817 | 78 | George SPENCER died | |||
| Personal Notes: |
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Marlborough entered the Coldstream Guards in 1755 as an Ensign, becoming a Captain with the 20th Regiment of Foot the following year. After inheriting the dukedom in 1758, Marlborough took his seat in the House of Lords in 1760, becoming Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire in that same year. The following year, he bore the sceptre with the cross at the coronation of George III. In 1762, he was made Lord Chamberlain as well as a Privy Counsellor, and after a year resigned this appointment to become Lord Privy Seal, a post he held until 1765. An amateur astronomer, he built a private observatory at his residence, Blenheim Palace. He kept up a lively scientific correspondence with Hans Count von Brühl, another aristocratic dilettante in astronomy.
The Duke was made a Knight of the Garter in 1768, and was elected to the Royal Society in 1786. |