Margaret Georgiana Spencer, countess Spencer [née Poyntz]

(1737-1814)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Spencer, Margaret Georgiana Poyntz Spencer, Countess, 1737-1814 NRA: Spencer Margaret Georgiana (1737-1814) nee Poyntz wife of 1st Earl Spencer DNB: Spencer [née Poyntz], (Margaret) Georgiana, Countess Spencer (1737-1814), philanthropist LBT ID: LySpenc1 VIAF ID: 3807048 LOC ID: n81149973	B/BAP: 1737-05-08 DIED: 1814-03-18
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Daughter of Anna Maria Mordaunt, maid of honour to Queen Caroline, and mother of Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806) and Lady Bessborough (1761-1821).
REFERENCES TO Margaret Georgiana Spencer, countess Spencer [née Poyntz]: Duke of Richmond to Lady Melbourne, 2 April 1806 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, [April 1812?] in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lady Bessborough to Lady Melbourne, [September? 1812] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1812 Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 23 “Moore’s Notices of Lord Byron” in Monthly Magazine NS 9 (February 1830) 183-97 Found 1: ¶ 52 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XIV Found 1: ¶ 1 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 30 Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter VII.