Vice-Admiral Frederick (Spencer), 4th Earl Spencer

1798 - 1857  (59 years)

• Name	Frederick (Spencer)  [1]
  Title	Vice-Admiral
  Suffix	4th Earl Spencer
  Birth	14 April 1798	The Admiralty Building, Whitehall, London, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Education	From 1808 to 1811	Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England   [1]
  Hereditary Title	4th Baron
  Hereditary Title	4th Earl
  Hereditary Title	4th Viscount
  Hereditary Title	4th Viscount
  Death	27 Dec. 1857	Althorp, Brington, Northamptonshire, England   [1]
  Burial	2 Jan. 1858	Brington, Northamptonshire, England   [1]
  Person ID	I40	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	30 May 2018

  
  

  Family 1	Countess Georgiana Elizabeth Poyntz,   b. 27 March 1799   d. 10 April 1851, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	23 Feb. 1830	St. George's Street, Mayfair, London, England   [1]
  Children	1. Lady Georgina Frances Spencer,   b. 1832   d. 1852 (Age 20 years)   2. John Poyntz (Spencer), 5th Earl Spencer,   b. 27 Oct. 1835, Spencer House, St. James's Place, St. James's, London, England d. 13 Aug. 1910, Althorp, Brington, Northamptonshire, England (Age 74 years)   3. Lady Sarah Isabella Spencer,   b. 1838   d. 1919 (Age 81 years)
  Family ID	F70	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Aug. 2015

  
  

  Family 2	Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth Seymour,   b. 27 Jan. 1825   d. 29 Oct. 1877, Guilsborough, Northamptonshire, England (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	9 Aug. 1854	St. James's, London, England   [1]
  Children	1. Lady Victoria Alexandrina Spencer,   b. 1855   d. 13 March 1906 (Age 51 years) + 2. Charles Robert (Spencer), 6th Earl Spencer,   b. 30 Oct. 1857   d. 26 Sept. 1922 (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F69	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Aug. 2015

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Spencer Quarterly Argent and Gules in the second and third quarters a Fret Or overall on a Bend Sable three Escallops of the first

  
  

• Notes

  Frederick Spencer, fourth Earl Spencer (1798–1857), naval officer, born on 14 April 1798, entered the navy on 18 September 1811. After serving as lieutenant under his brother in the Owen Glendower, Spencer commanded the brig Alacrity on the South American station. After promotion to captain on 26 August 1826, he was appointed to the frigate Talbot; he commanded her with distinction at the battle of Navarino on 20 October 1827, and in subsequent operations on the coast of the Morea. For these services he was made a CB (13 November 1827) and was decorated by the kings of France and Greece, and by the tsar. On 23 February 1830 he married his second cousin, Elizabeth Georgina (d. 10 April 1851), daughter of William Stephen Poyntz MP, of Cowdray Park, Midhurst. They had three children; the only son, John Poyntz Spencer, later became the fifth Earl Spencer. In 1831 Spencer was MP for Worcestershire, and afterwards for Midhurst (between 1832 and 1834, and 1837 and 1841). On the death of his eldest brother, he succeeded as fourth Earl Spencer, on 1 October 1845. From 1846 to 1848 he was lord chamberlain of the queen's household; he was made a KG on 23 March 1849, and in 1854 was appointed lord steward. On 9 August 1854 he married Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth (d. 29 Oct 1877), daughter of Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour. They had two children: Charles Robert became in 1910 the sixth Earl Spencer. A lifelong whig, Spencer was regarded by his children as a serious and reserved man. He died a vice-admiral on the retired list on 27 December 1857. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume XII/1, page 157. [S9] H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), Oxford D.N.B., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).