Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill

Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill

The Lord Ivor Charles Spencer-Churchill (14 October 1898–17 September 1956) was the younger son of the 9th Duke of Marlborough and his first wife, the former Consuelo Vanderbilt, an American railroad heiress.

His elder brother, John, was the 10th Duke of Marlborough. His stepmother was the former Gladys Deacon, and his stepfather was Col. Jacques Balsan.

Spencer-Churchill was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford before joining the Royal Army Service Corps in 1917 and gaining the rank of lieutenant. He fought in the First World War and was decorated with the French Legion of Honour.

He married Elizabeth Cunningham on November 15, 1947 and had a son, Robert William Charles (born 1954).

He developed an inoperable brain tumor and died in September 1956. He is buried beside his cousin, Sir Winston Churchill, and close to his mother at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire.


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