Victor Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill, GCVO

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Major Victor Albert Francis Charles Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill GCVO JP (23 October 1864 – 3 January 1934), known as Victor Albert Spencer until 1886 and as The Lord Churchill between 1886 and 1902, was a British peer and courtier.

Contents

   1 Background

   2 Political career

   3 Family

   4 References

   5 External links

Background

Spencer was born at 32, Albemarle Street, London, the son of Francis Spencer, 2nd Baron Churchill, and his wife Jane. He was a Page of Honour to Queen Victoria from 1876 to 1881, and in 1886 he succeeded to his father's title of Baron Churchill.

Educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards.[1] Political career

Spencer was a Lord in Waiting from 1889 to 1892 and 1895 to 1905 in both of Salisbury's governments and was created Viscount Churchill, of Rolleston in the County of Leicester, on 14 July 1902. He was also chairman and director of several transport companies, including the Great Western Railway 1908-34 and was the longest serving chairman of the company,[1] the British India Steamship Company, P&O and the Grand Union Canal. Family

Lord Churchill married Lady Verena Maud Lowther, daughter of Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale, at Cottesmore, Rutland, on 1 January 1887. They had four children. The couple were divorced in 1927. Churchill married as his second wife Christine McRae Sinclair. They had two children. He died of pneumonia on 3 January 1934.[1] References

   http://www.greatwestern.org.uk

External links

   Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Churchill