2nd Earl Spencer

The Right Honourable The Earl Spencer KG PC DL FRS FSA
Lord Spencer by John Singleton Copley, 1800.
Home Secretary
In office 5 February 1806 – 25 March 1807
Monarch	George III
Prime Minister	The Lord Grenville
Preceded by	The Lord Hawkesbury
Succeeded by	The Lord Hawkesbury
Personal details
Born	(1758-09-01)1 September 1758 Wimbledon Park, London
Died	10 November 1834(1834-11-10) (aged 76) Althorp, Northamptonshire
Nationality	British
Political party	Whig
Spouse(s)	Lady Lavinia Bingham (m. 1781–1831; her death)
Children	John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer Sarah Lyttelton, Baroness Lyttelton Hon. Richard Spencer Robert Cavendish Spencer Hon. William Spencer Lady Harriet Spencer Lady Georgiana Quin Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer Father Ignatius Spencer
Parents	John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer Margaret Georgiana Poyntz
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge

George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, KG, PC, DL, FRS, FSA (1 September 1758 – 10 November 1834), styled Viscount Althorp from 1765 to 1783, was a British Whig politician. He notably served as Home Secretary from 1806 to 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents.

Lord Spencer was born at Wimbledon Park, London, the son of John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer, and his wife Margaret Georgiana Poyntz, daughter of Stephen Poyntz, and was baptised there on 16 October 1758. His godparents were King George II, the Earl Cowper (his grandmother's second husband) and his great-aunt the Dowager Viscountess Bateman. His sister Lady Georgiana married the Duke of Devonshire and became a famed Whig hostess. He was educated at Harrow School from 1770 to 1775 and he won the school's Silver Arrow (an archery prize) in 1771. He then attended Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1776 to 1778 and graduated with a Master of Arts. He acceded to the earldom upon the death of his father in 1783.