Owners of Althorp and their families [ 1765 to date] John Spencer, created Earl Spencer 1765 1734 - 1783 married 1775 Georgiana Poyntz 1737 - 1814 Diana Spencer Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire Henrietta Countess of Bessborough George John, 2nd Earl Spencer, KG, 1758 - 1834 married 1814 Lady Lavinia Bingham 1762 - 1831 John Charles, 3rd Earl Spencer 1782 - 1845 married 1814 Ester Ackholm 1788 - 1818 3sons Frederick, 4th Earl Spencer, KG, married 1798 - 1857 Sarah, Lady Lyttelton Lady Georgiana Quinn 1) 1830 Elizabeth married Georgina Poyntz Lady Sarah Spencer Lady Georgiana Spencer John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer, KG 1835 - 1910 married 1858 Charlotte Seymour 1835 - 1903 2) 1854, Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth Seymour, ( 1823 - 1877) Charles Robert, 6th Earl Spencer, KG 1857 - 1922, married 1887 Hon Margaret Baring 1868 - 1906 Victoria Lady Sandhurst Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer 1892 - 1972 married 1919 Lady Cynthia Hamilton 1897 - 1972 2sonsLady Delia PeelLady Margaret Douglas Home Lavinia Lady Annaly 1) 1954 m. Hon. Frances Roche ( dissolved 1969) Edward John, 8th Earl Spencer 1924 - 1992 m. 2) Raine, Countess of Dartmouth Lady Anne Wake - Walker Charles EdwardMaurice, 9th Earl Spencer born1964 1) married Victoria Lockwood, 1989 born 1965 ( dissolved 1997) Lady SarahLady JaneDiana, Princess of Wales Louis Frederick John Spencer, Viscount Althorp born 1994 2) married Caroline born 1966 Daughter of RupertHutton Edmund Charles born2003 Lady Kitty Spencer born 1990 Lady Eliza Spencer born 1992 Lady Amelia Spencer born 1992 67

The Admiralty collection was inspired by the second Earl Spencer, appointed 1st Lord of the Admiralty in 1795. George John's first slice of luck was to succeed the unpopular Lord Chatham. Of longer term importance to him and to the Royal Navy, he was also deeply fortunate to have at his dispos-al during his tenure of the post some of the greatest sea commanders of British History: Lord St Vincent, Lord Duncan who conquered the Dutch squadron under Admiral de Winter and Lord Nelson. The latterwho was destined to become Britain's great-est naval hero. The collection is dignified by its finely cast crossed brass sabres. THE ADMIRALTY COLLECTION 89