William Robert Spencer

(1770-1834)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Spencer, William Robert, 1769-1834 NRA: Spencer William Robert (1769-1834) Poet DNB: Spencer, William Robert (1770-1834), poet and humorist LBT ID: WiSpenc1834 VIAF ID: 69284847 LOC ID: n83001394	B/BAP: 1770-01-09 DIED: 1834-10-23
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English wit and author of society verse. He was the son of Lord Charles Spencer, second son of the third duke of Marlborough, educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. Spencer was a friend of Fox, Sheridan, and the Prince of Wales.
REFERENCES TO William Robert Spencer: Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 1 February 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XXIV. Found 1: ¶ 19 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1816 (I) Found 2: ¶ 34 ¶ 44 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. V.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 35 (December 1832) 521-544 Found 1: ¶ 37 [John Mitford], “Lady Blessington's Conversations of Lord Byron” in The Gentleman’s Magazine NS 1 (June 1834) 583-93 Found 1: ¶ 33 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1826 Found 4: ¶ n1 ¶ 30 ¶ n1 ¶ 33 Chapter I 1826-27 Found 1: ¶ 14 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Lady Blessington II Found 1: ¶ 2 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography,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: ¶ 3 Chapter XV Found 1: ¶ 8 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter I. 1803-1805. Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ 23 ¶ 24 Chapter II. 1805-1809. Found 2: ¶ 15 ¶ 18 Chapter III. 1810-1812. Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter VII. 1847-50. Found 1: ¶ 19 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1806 Found 1: ¶ 9