Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
SPENCER, HENRY, 1ST EARL OF SUNDERLAND, eldest son of William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer, and Lady Penelope Wriothesley, eldest dau. of Henry Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton; bapt. 23 Nov 1620; at school under Osbaldeston; a contributor to Genethliaca Ducis Eboracensis celebrata a Musis Regiae Scholae Westmonasteriensis, 1633 (British Library, Royal MSS 12A, vol. xiii); Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 May 1635, aged 15; MA 31 Aug 1636; succ. father as 3rd Baron Spencer 19 Dec 1636; although nominated Lord Lieut. Northamptonshire by Parliament 28 Feb 1641/2, he joined the Royal army and fought at the battle of Edgehill 23 Oct 1642; created Earl of Sunderland 8 Jun 1643; m. 20 Jul 1639 Lady Dorothy Sydney (Waller’s “Sacharissa”), eldest dau. of Robert Sydney, 2nd Earl of Leicester; killed at first battle of Newbury 20 Sep 1643. DNB.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.