John Poyntz (Spencer), 5th Earl Spencer

1835 - 1910  (74 years)

• Name	John Poyntz (Spencer)  [1]
  Suffix	5th Earl Spencer
  Born	27 Oct. 1835	Spencer House, St. James's Place, St. James's, London, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Education	From 1848 to 1854	Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Education	From 1854 to 1857	Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England   [1]
  Hereditary Title	5th Baron
  Hereditary Title	5th Viscount
  Hereditary Title	5th Viscount
  Hereditary Title	Viscount
  Graduation	1857	Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England   [1]
  	Master of Arts (M.A.)
  Died	13 Aug. 1910	Althorp, Brington, Northamptonshire, England   [1]
  	from cerebral seizure, without issue
  Buried	18 Aug. 1910	Brington, Northamptonshire, England   [1]
  Person ID	I49	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	12 Aug. 2018

  
  

  Father	Vice-Admiral Frederick (Spencer), 4th Earl Spencer,   b. 14 April 1798, The Admiralty Building, Whitehall, London, England ,   d. 27 Dec. 1857, Althorp, Brington, Northamptonshire, England  (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Countess Georgiana Elizabeth Poyntz,   b. 27 March 1799,   d. 10 April 1851, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England  (Age 52 years)
  Married	23 Feb. 1830	St. George's Street, Mayfair, London, England   [2]
  Family ID	F70	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Married	8 July 1858	St. James's, London, England   [1]
  Last Modified	14 Aug. 2015
  Family ID	F74	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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

  Gibbs writes, "He supported Gladstone's proposals for granting Home Rule to Ireland, and, from his experience of that country and its politicians his adhesion carried consideable weight. 'I question very much whether Lord Spencer was at heart a Home Ruler. By nature obstinate and inflexible, ... his conversion to Home Rule seemed as remarkable in its way as Sir William Harcourt's. It could only be explained by personal loyalty to Mr. Gladstone, and out and out loyalty to party ... In conversation, or on his feet in the House of Lords, he seemed to me to have no command of happy expression ... I should think that, with all his great qualities of industry, devotion to the public service and personal integrity, Lord Spencer was wanting in ... "vision." ' As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland he displayed courage and firmness in the suppression of criminal conspiracy, which brought down on him showers of Nationalist abuse; it was at the beginning of his second term of office that the Chief Secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, was assassinated. In private life he was an upright, high minded man with pleasing manners and a keen sportsman, being thrice Master of the Pytchley." [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume XII/1, page 158. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume XII/1, page 157.