NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834 NRA: Spencer George John (1758-1834) 2nd Earl Spencer statesman DNB: Spencer, George John, second Earl Spencer (1758-1834), politician and book collector LBT ID: LdSpenc2 VIAF ID: 17584030 LOC ID: n88132834 | B/BAP: 1758-09-01 DIED: 1834-11-10 |
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Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a Whig MP aligned with Edmund
Burke, first lord of the Admiralty (1794-1801) and home secretary (1806-07). He was a book
collector and patron of the poets John Clare and Herbert Knowles. | |