"Charles Robert Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer KG, GCVO, PC, VRD (30 October 1857 – 26 September 1922), styled The Honourable Charles Spencer until 1905 and known as The Viscount Althorp between 1905 and 1910, was a British courtier and Liberal politician. An MP from 1880 to 1895 and again from 1900 to 1905, he served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1892 to 1895. Ennobled as Viscount Althorp in 1905, he was Lord Chamberlain from 1905 to 1912 in the Liberal administrations headed by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith. In 1910 he succeeded his half-brother in the earldom of Spencer. Lord Spencer was a great-grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales."

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Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Spencer,_6th_Earl_Spencer

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39835798

http://www.geneall.net/U/per_page.php?id=80930

http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I69827&tree=Nixon

http://thepeerage.com/p10105.htm#i101043

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Citations:

1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XIII, page 39. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

2. [S8] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 2, page 2673. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition.

3. [S2] Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 28. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV.

4. [S4] C.F.J. Hankinson, editor, DeBretts Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, 147th year (London, U.K.: Odhams Press, 1949), page 1007. Hereinafter cited as DeBretts Peerage, 1949.