The Right Hon. Earl Spencer, K.O., the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,1869. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Mason and Co., of ...Sir John Poyntz Spencer, K.G., present and fifth Earl Spencer, late Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and now Lord Lieutenant of Ireland...His Lordship...married, in 1858, Charlotte Frances Frederica, third daughter of Frederick Charles William Seymour, fifth son of Lord Hugh Seymour, whose father was Francis, first Marquis of Hertford, K.G., Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1765. Maternally, her Excellency Countess Spencer is granddaughter of Frederick William, Marquis of Bristol... Althorp, in the county of Northampton, and Wormleighton, in the county of Warwick, have been the patrimony of the Spencers for nearly four centuries. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.