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5 unusual facts about Robert Spencer


Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester

Bonaventure Giffard, backed by Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland and several Catholic councillors to put her away for a time.

Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland

When he urged James to put away his mistress Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester James said crushingly that he had not realised that Sunderland was his confessor and told him in future to mind his own business.

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.

Sir Edward Petre, 3rd Baronet

Like many at James's court, Petre at first trusted Lord Sunderland, but he was also among the first to detect that minister's duplicity and to break with him.

Viscount Teviot

The first creation was for the Honourable Robert Spencer, on 20 October 1685.


Edip Yüksel

Peacemaker's Guide to Warmongers: Exposing Robert Spencer, Osama bin Laden, David Horowitz, Mullah Omar, Bill Warner, Ali Sina and other Enemies of Peace (English, 2010-2012, Brainbow Press, ISBN 978-0-9796715-3-1).

Gayton, Northamptonshire

He was born in 1565 and was knighted in July 1603 and, in September, accompanied the new ambassador, Lord Spencer, to the court of the Duke of Württemberg, now part of southern Germany.

Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston

In September Preston presented a strongly worded memorial to the French king 'touching his seizing upon the citty of Orange, looking on it as done to himself’. In October 1683 the Earl of Sunderland by the king's commands gave Preston directions to let the ministers in France know 'what a very ill man Dr. Burnet was.'

William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton

Spencer was the son of Robert Spencer, 1st Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, and his wife, Margaret Willoughby, and was baptised on 4 January 1591 at Brington, Northamptonshire.

Youth for Western Civilization

YWC members have engaged in a range of activities, including protesting a performance of The Vagina Monologues, and bringing speakers such as Tom Tancredo, Robert Spencer, and Bay Buchanan to university campuses.


see also

Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer

Cecil Edward Robert Spencer RN DSC Croix de guerre (1894–1928), died unmarried in a riding accident.