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unusual facts about Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire


William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton

He was later Special Envoy to Foreign Courts to announce the accession of King George V in 1910 and served as Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire from 1912 to 1913.


Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland

Intermittently, between 1682 and 1688, he served as Secretary of State for the Southern Department, Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, and Lord President of the Council; in 1687, he signed the King's grant of religious freedom for the Brenttown (Brenton) tract in Prince William County, Virginia, to encourage settlement of French Protestants.

Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton

In 1630 he inherited the Earldom on the death of his father in 1630 and assumed his duties as Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire and Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire.


see also

John Verney

John Verney, 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1896–1986), British officer, Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire