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Baron Churchill
Creation date11 August 1815
CreationFirst
Created byThe Prince Regent (acting on behalf of his father King George III)
PeeragePeerage of the United Kingdom
First holderLord 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 byEdward VII
PeeragePeerage of the United Kingdom
First holderVictor 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, 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.

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. 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.

The barony was inherited by the last Viscount's second cousin once removed, 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)

  • Richard Harry Ramsay Spencer, 6th Baron Churchill (1926–2020)
  • Michael Richard de Charrière Spencer, 7th Baron Churchill (born 1960)

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
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).

References

  1. History of Parliament Online "Lord Francis Almeric (1779-1845), of Wychwood and Cornbury Park, Oxon". Retrieved on 8 January 2019.
  2. Cracrofts peerage "Churchill, Baron (UK, 1815)". Retrieved on 8 January 2019.
  3. "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26121. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. "No. 27455". The London Gazette. 18 July 1902. p. 4586.
  5. ^ "The 3rd (and last) Viscount Churchill, OBE 1934-2017". Peerage News. UK. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2018. The viscountcy of Churchill (created in 1902) now becomes extinct. The 3rd Viscount is succeeded in the barony of Churchill (created in 1815) by his second cousin once removed, Richard Harry Ramsay Spencer, born 11 Oct, 1926, who becomes the 6th Baron Churchill.
  6. "Death Announcements: CHURCHILL". The Telegraph. 24 October 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  7. Burke's peerage and baronetage. 1970. p. 549.

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See also

United Kingdom Extant hereditary baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
King George III
The Prince Regent
King George IV
King William IV
Queen Victoria
King Edward VII
King George V
King Edward VIII
King George VI
Queen Elizabeth II
§: Disclaimed.  Italics: This title is held by a peer who holds another of higher precedence. ^* Also a Lord in the Peerage of Scotland  ^• Also a Baron in the Peerage of Ireland
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