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| John Winston SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1822 - 1883) |
| 7th Duke of Marlborough, P.C., K.G. |
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| b. 1822 |
| m. 1843 Frances Anne Emily VANE ( - 1899) |
| d. 1883 aged 61 |
| Events in John Winston SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1822 - 1883)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 1822 | John Winston SPENCER-CHURCHILL was born | ||||
| 1843 | 21 | Married Frances Anne Emily VANE | |||
| 1844 | 22 | Death of mother Jane STEWART | |||
| 13 May 1844 | 22 | Birth of son George Charles SPENCER-CHURCHILL | |||
| 1846 | 24 | Birth of son Frederick John Winston SPENCER-CHURCHILL | |||
| 1849 | 27 | Birth of son Randolph Henry CHURCHILL | |||
| 1850 | 28 | Death of son Frederick John Winston SPENCER-CHURCHILL (aged 4) | |||
| 1850 | 28 | Death of step mother Charlotte Augusta FLOWER | |||
| 1856 | 34 | Birth of son Charles Ashley SPENCER-CHURCHILL | |||
| 1857 | 35 | Death of father George SPENCER-CHURCHILL (aged 64) | |||
| 1858 | 36 | Birth of son Augustus Robert SPENCER-CHURCHILL | |||
| 1858 | 36 | Death of son Charles Ashley SPENCER-CHURCHILL (aged 2) | |||
| 1859 | 37 | Death of son Augustus Robert SPENCER-CHURCHILL (aged 1) | |||
| 1883 | 61 | John Winston SPENCER-CHURCHILL died | |||
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John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, KG, PC (2 June 1822 – 4 July 1883), styled Earl of Sunderland from 1822 to 1840 and Marquess of Blandford from 1840 to 1857, was a British Conservative cabinet minister, politician, and nobleman. He was the paternal grandfather of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
John Spencer-Churchill was born at Garboldisham Hall, Norfolk, the eldest son of George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough, and Lady Jane Stewart, daughter of Admiral George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway. He was educated at Eton College and Oriel College, Oxford. He commenced his career as a lieutenant in the 1st Oxfordshire yeomanry in 1843. Spencer-Churchill was Member of Parliament for Woodstock from 1844 to 1845 and again from 1847 to 1857, when he succeeded his father in the dukedom and entered the House of Lords. He served under Lord Derby as Lord Steward of the Household from 1866 to 1867, and under Derby and later Benjamin Disraeli as Lord President of the Council—with a seat in the cabinet—from 1867 to 1868. He was an influential Freemason; he was sworn of the Privy Council in 1866, and made a Knight of the Garter in 1868. On the formation of Disraeli's second cabinet in 1874, he was offered, but declined, the Viceroyalty of Ireland. He again held office under Disraeli as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1876 to 1880. Spencer-Churchill was president of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society for many years. He died suddenly of angina pectoris at 29 Berkeley Square, London, on 4 July 1883. After lying in state at Blenheim Palace, he was buried in the private chapel on 10 July. |