Baron Churchill (1815 creation)

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Baron Churchill
Coat of arms of Spencer, Baron Churchill.svg
Creation date11 August 1815
CreationFirst
Created by The Prince Regent (acting on behalf of his father King George III)
Peerage Peerage of the United Kingdom
First holder Lord Francis Spencer
Present holderMichael Spencer, 7th Baron Churchill
Heir presumptiveHon. David Spencer
StatusExtant
MottoDIEU DEFEND LE DROIT
(English: God defend my right)
The Barony of Churchill was held by the Viscounts Churchill from 1902 to 2017
Viscount Churchill
Creation date14 July 1902
Created by Edward VII
Peerage Peerage of the United Kingdom
First holder Victor Spencer, 3rd Baron Churchill
Last holderVictor Spencer, 3rd Viscount Churchill
StatusExtinct
Extinction date18 October 2017

Baron Churchill, of Wychwood in the County of Oxford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and held by a branch of the Spencer family. It was created in 1815 for Lord Francis Spencer, [1] [2] [3] younger son of the 4th Duke of Marlborough (see Duke of Marlborough for earlier history of the family). He had previously represented Oxfordshire in Parliament.

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From 1902 to 2017, the barony was subsidiary title of the viscountcy of Churchill. The title of Viscount Churchill, of Rolleston in the County of Leicester, was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 15 July 1902 for the first baron's grandson Conservative politician Victor Spencer, 3rd Baron Churchill. [4] The viscountcy became extinct in 2017 on the death of the first Viscount's youngest son, the third Viscount, who had succeeded his half-brother, the second Viscount, in 1973.[ citation needed ]

The barony was inherited by the last Viscount's second cousin once removed, [5] the great-grandson of General Sir Augustus Almeric Spencer, the third son of the 1st Baron Churchill.

Baron Churchill (1815)

Viscount Churchill (1902)

Baron Churchill (1815; reverted)

The heir presumptive is the present holder's brother, the Hon. David Anthony de Charrière Spencer (born 1970).

Male-line family tree

Male-line family tree, Barons Churchill and Viscounts Churchill.
Francis Spencer
1st Baron Churchill

1779–1845
Francis Spencer
2nd Baron Churchill

1802–1886
Lt. Col. Hon.
George Spencer
1804–1877
Gen. Hon.
Sir Augustus Spencer
1807–1893
Viscount Churchill
Victor Spencer
1st Viscount Churchill

3rd Baron Churchill

1864–1934
Lt. Col.
John Spencer-Munro
1849–1916
Lt. Col.
Augustus Spencer
1851–1912
Hon.
Victor Spencer
1888–1888
Victor Spencer
2nd Viscount Churchill
4th Baron Churchill

1890–1973
Victor Spencer
3rd Viscount Churchill
5th Baron Churchill

1934–2017
Capt.
Almeric Spencer-Munro
1885–1960
Col.
Richard Spencer
1888–1956
Viscountcy extinct
Richard Spencer
6th Baron Churchill

1926–2020
Michael Spencer
7th Baron Churchill

born 1960
Hon.
David Spencer
born 1970
Thomas Ellison-Spencer
born 2006

Arms

Coat of arms of Baron Churchill [7]
Coat of arms of Spencer, Baron Churchill.svg
Crest
Out of a ducal Coronet or, a griffin’s head between two Wings expanded argent, gorged with a bar gemel gules, armed gold.
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st & 4th, quarterly argent and gules, in the second and third quarters charged with a fret or, over all on a bend sable with three escallops argent (Spencer); 2nd & 3rd, Sable, a lion rampant argent, on a canton of the last, a cross gules (Churchill).
Supporters
Dexter: A griffin wings erect per fess argent and or gorged with a collar of the last, thereon three escallops sable, line reflexed over the back also or. Sinister: A wyvern the wings erect gules, collared as the dexter.
Motto
Dieu defend le droit (God defend the right).

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References

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