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SPENCER
SPENCER
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[National Portrait Gallery: John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer 1835-1910 Politician, Lord President of the Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Sitter in 38 portraits]
[Source: ThePeerage.com: Spencer of Althorp]
[Source: Wikipedia: Earl Spencer (peerage)]
John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782 - 1845) = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Spencer,_3rd_Earl_Spencer
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_______________SEE 1869 for stunning attack in the Ballyshannon Herald 26 Jue 1869 etc by Potestants on him as ?? for ireland
[Source: 1869.]
__________________John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, KG, KP, PC (27 October 1835 - 13 August 1910), known as Viscount Althorp from 1845 to 1857 (and also known as the Red Earl because of his distinctive long red beard), was a British Liberal Party politician under, and close friend of, British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. He was twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
[Wikipedia: John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer]
[ThePeerage.com: John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer]
"Poyntz" was JPS's mother's surname
[ThePeerage.com: Georgiana Elizabeth Poyntz]
In 1864, Spencer, as lord of the manor of Wimbledon through his ownership of Wimbledon House, attempted to get a private parliamentary bill [16] to enclose Wimbledon Common for the creation of a new park with a house and gardens and to sell part for building. In a landmark decision for English common land, and following an enquiry, permission was refused and a board of conservators was established in 1871 [17][18] to take ownership of the common and preserve it in its natural condition.
John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer
John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910), Politician, Lord President of the Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
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A Whig politician who played a prominent role in Liberal politics for almost forty years. Elected MP in 1857, he came to the fore in 1867 during the Second Reform Act which, unlike many in his party, he supported. He was a member of successive Liberal governments, and a member of the cabinet in all except the first. Irish politics came to be a major preoccupation of his political career. As Lord Lieutenant (Viceroy) of Ireland, Spencer was given the difficult task of carrying out the provisions of the Irish Land Acts. In 1892 he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. His shipbuilding programme and steps to improve naval defences were of immense value when the First World War broke out.
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Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)
SPENCER, JOHN POYNTZ SPENCER, 5th Earl (1835-1010), English statesman, was the son of the 4th Earl and his first wife, a daughter of William Stephen Poyntz, of Cowdray Park, Sussex. Born on the 27th of October 1835, and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a member of parliament for a few months before he succeeded to the earldom in December 1857. His long career as a Liberal politician dates from his acceptance of the office of lord-lieutenant of Ireland under Gladstone in 1868, a post which he retained until 1874. When the Liberals returned to power in 1880 he was appointed lord president of the council, but in 1882 he eittered upon a second term of office as lord-lieutenant of Ireland. The three years during which Earl Spencer now filled this position was a period of exceptional disorder in Ireland, marked by a long series of outrages and conspiracies associated with the "Invincibles," but the courage and firmness which he. then displayed won the admiration of all, and made his adoption of the policy of Home Rule in 1885 an event of considerable interest. In the short Liberal administration of 1886 he was lord-president of the council, and from 1892 to 1895 he was a very capable first lord of the admiralty; it is on record that Gladstone, on retiring in 1904, would have recommended the Queen, if she had consulted him, to summon Lord Spencer to the premiership. From 1002 to 1905 he was the Liberal leader in the House of Lords, and early in 1905, when a change of government was seen to be probable, it was thought in some quarters that he would be the most suitable Liberal prime minister. But his health broke down just at this time, and he took no further part in political life, although he survived until the 13th of August 1910, when he died at Althorp. For forty-five years the earl was a Knight of the Garter; he was lord-lieutenant of Northamptonshire for upwards of thirty years, and he had a reputation as a keen and daring rider to hounds. The fine library, collected at Althorp by the 2nd earl, was sold by him for £250,000 to Mrs Rylands, the widow of a Manchester merchant, and was by her presented to the city of Manchester.
Earl Spencer had no children, and his successor was his half-brother, Charles Robert Spencer (b. 1857), who became the 6th earl. As the Hon. Charles R. Spencer he was one of the parliamentary representatives for Northamptonshire from 1880 to 1895 and again from 1900 to 1905, and was vice-chamberlain of the royal household from 1892 to 1895. In 1905 he was appointed lord chamberlain, and in the same year he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Althorp.
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The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) - Mon 15 Aug 1910
EARL SPENCER DEAD
TWICE IRISH VICEROY
LONDON, Aug. 13 1910
Earl Spencer, who was reported a few days ago to have been attacked by an alarming epileptic seizure, died today. He was in his 75th year.
Distinguished offices were held by Earl Spencer during his political career. For a few months before the death of his father the fourth Earl, in 1857, he sat in the House of Commons as representative of the Southern Division of the County of Northampton.
After filling minor political posts between 1859 and 1867, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland at the end of 1869, and retained that office till the resignation of the Gladstone Ministry in February, 1874. On the return of the Liberals to office, in May, 1880, he was appointed Lord President of the Council. He was nominated Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on the resignation of Earl Cowper, May 4, 1882, retaining his seat in the Cabinet.
He arrived at Dublin Castle on May 6, on the evening of which day Lord Frederick Cavendish, the newly appointed Chief Secretary, and Mr. Thomas A. Burke, the Under-Secretary, were stabbed to death by assassins in the Phoenix-park. After this it fell to Lord Spencer to administer the provisions of the Crimes Act.
In March, 18S3, Lord Spencer resigned the office of Lord President of the Council, but still remained a member of the Cabinet until the close of Mr. Gladstone's Administration in Juno, 1885. On the return of Mr. Gladstone to office in February of the following year, Lord Spencer became for the second time Lord President of the Council.
In August, 1892, he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and held office until 1895. His last office was that of Keeper of the Privy Seal of the Duke of Cornwall, which he held from 1901 till 1907. His heir is his half-brother, Account Althorp.
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NEEDS EDITIreland's Czar: Gladstonian Government Lord Lieutenancies of the Red Earl Spenc 1868-86
Review: This substantial and authoritative book argues that the "bifurcated governm
Westminster and Dublin Castle allowed all the odium of coercion to fall on Spencer
Donal McCartney
Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 10:56
The Act of Union of 1800 was intended to strengthen the connection between Grea and to promote and secure the essential interests of the two kingdoms. Yet Ireland integrated into the United Kingdom but remained administered from Dublin Castle a chief secretary and their officers as if it were some Indian outpost of the British E binding the two countries together the union only drove them further apart. And th the failures of the castle administration.
Ireland's Czar by James H Murphy is a study of the fifth Earl Spencer as lord lieute first government, of 1868-74, and again in 1882-85, during Gladstone's second gov Irish grievances and win over the Catholic majority, Gladstone's first government di Church of Ireland, passed the first of his land Acts and attempted to solve the unive furthering this agenda Spencer was Gladstone's loyal servant. Any differences betw and the prime minister tended to be questions of emphasis, not of principle.
Spencer was less liberal than Gladstone on coercion, was slower to release Fenian p criticised by cabinet colleagues for banning an amnesty meeting in the Phoenix Par differences emerged mainly in private and were hidden from the public. What this how little positive input Spencer made to Gladstone's remedial agenda in the perio halt the progress of Isaac Butt's Home Rule movement, he remained no more than spectator".
Great rejoicing
Freeman's Journal
That evening Cavendish and Thomas Burke, permanent undersecretary at the Irish murdered by the Invincibles in front of the Viceregal Lodge. A shocked governmen draconian Crimes Act that William O'Brien described as "a declaration of war on hum as anything" in "the annals of English misgovernment of Ireland".
Security became Spencer's priority. First, he attended to his personal safety. In his lodge he was surrounded by an armed escort of mounted soldiers and police. When was accompanied by an armed guard. (One notorious breach of security occurred w grabbed the bridle of his horse on Westmoreland Street and demanded to know wh demolished huts built by the Land League for evicted families.)
colour of his beard and the association with blood that the colour evoked.
This book cannot be accused of ignoring the forceful condemnations of the lord lieut nationalists. For balance, however, the author refers to the extravagance of the den and dismisses William O'Brien as a ruthless politician. He explains the extremely di which Spencer found himself, and provides character references from Spencer's En allude to his "discriminating judgment", "high integrity", fair-mindedness, impartia and unflinching loyalty. His Tory opponent Randolph Churchill privately labelled h vain, obstinate, dull man".
The argument of this substantial and authoritative book is that the "bifurcated government" from Westminster and Dublin Castle allowed all the odium of coercion to fall on Sp while Gladstone was building bridges with the Irish MPs at Westminster.
This was hardly Machiavellian calculation by the prime minister. And it is hardly sur nationalists concentrated their attacks on the castle - the most offensive and weake
To view the problem of ruling Ireland through Spencer's eyes is a welcome counter
strongly supported Gladstone's crusade for Home Rule. To his erstwhile Irish critic credible as statesman than he had been as administrator.
[Source: James Murphy, Ireland's Czar.]