Georgiana Spencer, Countess Spencer
Margaret Georgiana Spencer, Countess Spencer , was an English philanthropist. She was born at St Jamess Palace as the daughter of a diplomat and a maid of honour to Caroline of Ansbach. In 1754, she married John Spencer, one of the wealthiest men of the era. A love match, the marriage resulted in the births of three surviving children, which included Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. The Spencers became earl and countess in 1765, a reward granted by the Duke of Newcastle for Johns political loyalty to the Whig party.
Margaret Georgiana Poyntz, known as Georgiana to her family, was born onMay 1737 at St Jamess Palace, the fourth surviving child of Stephen Poyntz and Anna Maria Mordaunt. Her diplomat father, the son of a successful linen draper, had been sent to Eton College as a boy to begin a career in society, and eventually became the steward to the young Duke of Cumberlands household and a Privy Councillor to King George II. Georgianas mother, a maid of honour to Queen Caroline, was the daughter of BrigadierGeneral the Hon. Lewis Mordaunt and a granddaughter of John Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough. Georgiana had four siblings, three brothers and one sister. Stephen Poyntz died when Georgiana was thirteen, leaving the family, never rich, in comfortable surroundings.
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