Spencer Le Marchant

Sir Spencer Le Marchant
Comptroller of the Household
In office 7 May 1979 – 30 September 1981
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	James Hamilton
Succeeded by	Anthony Berry

Sir Spencer Le Marchant (15 January 1931 – 7 September 1986) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Born in Edmonton, London, Le Marchant was educated at Eton College and was a member of the . He served as a councillor on Westminster City Council from 1956.

Le Marchant contested the London safe seat occupied by the Labour Party's George Strauss since its 1950 creation, Vauxhall, at the 1966 general election. He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for High Peak at the 1970 general election, and held the seat until he retired from Parliament at the 1983 general election. He was appointed Comptroller of the Household when Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979.

Le Marchant received note in Thatcher's memoirs as "famous for his intake of champagne", 6 foot and 6 inches tall, and "could be heard booming out the result" when the then Labour government lost a motion of confidence by one vote, causing the 1979 general election.

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