John Spencer, Viscount Althorp
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The Right Honourable The Earl Spencer PC DL FRS |
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Lord Spencer as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Henry Pierce Bone.
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In office 22 November 1830 – 14 November 1834 |
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| Monarch | William IV |
| Prime Minister | The Viscount Melbourne |
| Preceded by | Henry Goulburn |
| Succeeded by | Sir Robert Peel, Bt |
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30 May 1782 St James's, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 1 October 1845 (aged 63) Wiseton, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Whig |
| Spouse(s) | Esther Acklom (1788–1818) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer PC DL FRS (30 May 1782 – 1 October 1845), styled Viscount Althorp from 1783 to 1834, was a British . He was notably Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne from 1830 to 1834.
His father George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer had served in the ministries of Pitt the Younger, Charles James Fox and Lord Grenville, and was First Lord of the Admiralty (1794–1801). He was married to the eldest daughter of Lord Lucan. Their eldest son, John Charles, was born at Spencer House, London, on 30 May 1782. In 1800, after Harrow, he took up his residence at Trinity College, Cambridge, and for some time applied himself energetically to mathematical studies; but he spent most of his time in hunting and racing. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire on 5 June 1803.
In 1804, he entered parliament as a member for Okehampton in Devon. He vacated his seat in 1806, to contest the University of Cambridge against Lord Henry Petty and Lord Palmerston (when he was hopelessly beaten), but he was elected that same year for St Albans, and appointed a lord of the treasury. At the general election in November 1806, he was elected for Northamptonshire, and he continued to sit for the county until he succeeded to the peerage. For the next few years after this speech Lord Althorp occasionally spoke in debate and always on the side of Liberalism, but from 1813 to 1818 he was only rarely in the House of Commons. His absence was partly due to a feeling that it was hopeless to struggle against the will of the Tory ministry, but more particularly because of the death of his wife.
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