Lord Charles Spencer

Lord Charles Spencer (31 March 1740-16 June 1820) was a British politician.

He was the second son of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough. On 2 October 1762, he married Mary Beauclerk (4 December 1743-13 January 1812), daughter of Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere and sister of Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans, by whom he had three sons. ["Burkes Peerage" (1939 edition), s.v Marlborough, Duke] .

*Robert Spencer (c. 1764-1831)
*John Spencer (21 December 1767-17 December 1831)
*William Robert Spencer (9 January 1769-23 October 1834)

He served as Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire from 1761 to 1790 and 1796 to 1801. He was appointed to the Privy Council of Great Britain in 1763. He occupied a series of junior government Posts, Comptroller of the Household from 1763 to 1765; a Junior Lord of the Admiralty from 1768 to 1779; and Treasurer of the Chamber from 1779 to 1782 (when that sinecure was abolished). He was Postmaster General from 1801 to 1806, then as Master of the Mint in 1806. From 1808 until his death he was a Lord of the Bedchamber.

References

*John Cannon, ‘Spencer, Charles, third duke of Marlborough (1706–1758)’, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", (Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2007) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26118] , accessed 18 Aug 2008.