John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer
1835–1910
Liberal politician. Succeeded as fifth Earl Spencer in 1857. Viceroy of Ireland, 1868–74, 1882–5. Lord president of the Council, 1880–2. First lord of the Admiralty, 1892–5.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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