Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer

Charles Robert Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer KG GCVO VD PC , styled The Honourable Charles Spencer until 1905 and known as The Viscount Althorp between 1905 and 1910, was a British courtier and Liberal politician from the Spencer family. An MP from 1880 to 1895 and again from 1900 to 1905, he served as ViceChamberlain of the Household from 1892 to 1895. Raised to peerage as Viscount Althorp in 1905, he was Lord Chamberlain from 1905 to 1912 in the Liberal administrations headed by Sir Henry CampbellBannerman and H. H. Asquith. In 1910, he succeeded his halfbrother in the earldom of Spencer. He was married to Margaret Baring, a member of the Baring family. They were the greatgrandparents of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Spencer was born in St. Jamess, Westminster, the son of Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer, by his second wife Adelaide Seymour, daughter of Horace Beauchamp Seymour and granddaughter of Lord Hugh Seymour. John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, was his elder halfbrother. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.

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