John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp and 3d Earl Spencer
1782–1845
Politician. Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1830–4. Leader of the Whigs in the House of Commons, 1830–4. Succeeded to the earldom in 1834. Noted as a breeder of shorthorn cattle; first president of the Royal Agricultural Society, 1838.
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ODNB.
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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