Major

Major

Major is a rank of commissioned officer, with corresponding ranks existing in almost every military in the world.When used unhyphenated, in conjunction with no other indicator of rank, the term refers to the rank just senior to that of an Army captain and just below the rank of lieutenant colonel. ...

 Victor Albert Francis Charles Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill GCVO

Royal Victorian Order

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 JP

Justice of the Peace

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 (23 October 1864 – 3 January 1934), known as The Lord Churchill between 1886 and 1902, was a British

United Kingdom

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 peer and courtier.

Spencer was born at 32 Albemarle Street

Albemarle Street

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, London

London

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, the son of the 2nd Baron Churchill and his wife, Jane. He was a Page of Honour

Page of Honour

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 to Queen Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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 from 1876 to 1881 and in 1886, he succeeded to his father's title of Baron Churchill. On 1 January 1887, he married Lady Verena Maud Lowther, the daughter of the 3rd Earl of Lonsdale

Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale

Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale was a British nobleman and Conservative politician, the eldest son of Henry Cecil Lowther and Lady Lucy Sherard.He married Emily Susan Caulfeild on 31 July 1852. They had six children:...

, at Cottesmore, Rutland

Cottesmore, Rutland

Cottesmore is a village in the north of the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. In terms of population it is the largest village in Rutland, and the third-largest settlement after Oakham and Uppingham. This is due in part to the presence of RAF Cottesmore.The Cottesmore Hunt takes...

. They had four children. The couple were divorced in 1927 and Spencer married Christine McRae Sinclair and they had two children.

Spencer had also been a Lord in Waiting from 1889 to 1892 and 1895 to 1905 in both of Salisbury's

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC , styled Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until April 1868, was a British Conservative statesman and thrice Prime Minister, serving for a total of over 13 years...

 governments and was created Viscount Churchill, of Rolleston in the County of Leicester, on 14 July 1902. He was also chairman and director of several transport

Transport

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 companies, including the Great Western Railway

Great Western Railway

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, the British India Steamship Company, P&O

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 and the Grand Union Canal

Grand Union Canal

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.