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 | | In the short Liberal administration of.z886 he was lord-president of the council, and from I892 to 1895 he was a very capable first lord of the admiralty; it is on record that Gladstone, on retiring in 1904, would have recommended the Queen, if she had consulted him, to summon Lord Spencer to the premiership. |
 | | The fine library, collected at Althorp by the 2nd earl, was sold by him for ~a~o,ooo to Mrs Rylands, the widow of a Manchester merchant, and was by her presented to the city of Manchester. |
 | | Charles R. Spencer he was one of the parliamentary representatives for Northamptonshire from 188o to 1895 and again from 1900 to Igos, and was vice-chamberlain of the royal household from 1892 to i8g~. |
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