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George SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1766 - 1840)
5th Duke of Marlborough
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
George SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1793 - 1857)
 George SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1766 - 1840)

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Susan STEWART (1767 - 1841)
 George SPENCER (1739 - 1817)











Caroline RUSSELL (1743 - 1811)











George SPENCER-CHURCHILL Susan STEWART
George SPENCER-CHURCHILL
George SPENCER-CHURCHILL Susan STEWART George SPENCER-CHURCHILL
b. 06 Mar 1766
m. Susan STEWART (1767 - 1841)
d. 05 Mar 1840 aged 73
Parents:
George SPENCER (1739 - 1817)
Caroline RUSSELL (1743 - 1811)
Children (1):
George SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1793 - 1857)
Grandchildren (7):
Clementina Augusta SPENCER-CHURCHILL ( - 1886), Louisa SPENCER-CHURCHILL ( - 1882), John Winston SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1822 - 1883), Alfred SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1824 - 1893), Alan SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1825 - 1873), Almeric Athelstan SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1847 - ), Edward SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1853 - 1911)
Events in George SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1766 - 1840)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
06 Mar 1766 George SPENCER-CHURCHILL was born
1793 27 Birth of son George SPENCER-CHURCHILL
1811 45 Death of mother Caroline RUSSELL (aged 68)
29 Jan 1817 50 Death of father George SPENCER (aged 78)
05 Mar 1840 73 George SPENCER-CHURCHILL died
Personal Notes:
George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough FSA (6 March 1766 – 5 March 1840), styled Marquess of Blandford until 1817, was a British nobleman, politician, peer, and collector of antiquities and books.

Spencer-Churchill was the eldest son of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, and Lady Caroline Russell, daughter of John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford. Francis Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill, was his younger brother. He was educated at Eton between 1776 and 1783 and at Christ Church, Oxford between 1784 and 1786, where he graduated on 9 December 1786 as a Bachelor of Arts, later proceeding automatically to Master of Arts. He was later given the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (D.C.L.) from the University on 20 June 1792.

Lord Blandford represented Oxfordshire in parliament as a Whig between 1790 and 1796 and Tregony as a Tory between 1802 and 1806. From 1804 to 1806 he served under William Pitt the Younger as a Lord of the Treasury. The latter year he was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's barony of Spencer of Wormleighton. During this time, he lived in Berkshire, at Remenham and Hurst. From 1798, he resided at Whiteknights Park at Earley, near Reading, where he became famous for his extravagant collecting of antiquities, especially books. He was invested as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA) on 8 December 1803.

Although the Marquess was born and baptised with the name of George Spencer, soon after succeeding to the Dukedom of Marlborough, he had it legally changed on 26 May 1817 to George Spencer-Churchill. This illustrious name did not, however, save him from his mounting debts and his estates were seized and his collections sold. He retired to Blenheim Palace where he lived the remainder of his life off a small annuity granted to the first Duke by Queen Anne.

The diarist Harriet Arbuthnot wrote one of her most scathing comments about the Duke following a visit to Blenheim in 1824:

The family of the great General is, however, gone sadly to decay, and are but a disgrace to the illustrious name of Churchill, which they have chosen this moment to resume. The present Duke is overloaded with debt, is very little better than a common swindler and lets everything about Blenheim. People may shoot and fish at so much per hour and it has required all the authority of a Court of Chancery to prevent his cutting down all the trees in the park.
This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.
  1. My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
  2. Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
  3. Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
  4. Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).
I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
If you find errors - anything incorrect (dates, places, wrong parents, wrong children), and you have evidence, I would love to fix them. Or, if you have information that would extend my projects, do not hestiate to contact me on the email link below. I do not publish information on living people - which means I'm not much interested in people born after about 1920, and I usually distrust material from before about 1770 without extremely good sources.
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