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John Spencer (died 1599)

Member of the Parliament of England

Summary

Member of the Parliament of England

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Sir
name	John Spencer
image	Funeral display of Sir John Spencer.png
caption	The funeral honours of Sir John Spencer, Kt. (1551-1599). He displays both the Despencer arms (differenced as a cadet branch) adopted after c. 1595 and the blue and white arms granted in 1504.
noble family	Spencer
father	John Spencer
mother	Katherine Kitson
spouse	Mary Catlyn
issue	Robert Spencer, 1st Baron Spencer of Wormleighton
birth_date
birth_place	Althorp, Northamptonshire
death_date
death_place	Althorp, Northamptonshire
burial_place	St Mary the Virgin Church, Great Brington

Sir John Spencer (9 January 1599) was an English nobleman, politician, landowner, sheriff, knight, and MP from the Spencer family.

Life and family

Spencer was the son of Sir John Spencer (died 1586) of Althorp, Northamptonshire, and his wife Katherine Kitson, daughter of Sir Thomas Kitson of Hengrave, Suffolk. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he then trained in the law at the Middle Temple. He succeeded his father in 1586, inheriting estates at Wormleighton, Warwickshire, and Althorp, Northamptonshire, and was knighted in 1588.

He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Bedfordshire in 1577 and for Northamptonshire in 1584. He was Sheriff of Northamptonshire for the year 1578–79 and again for 1590–91. He was elected as one of the members of parliament for Northampton in 1572.

Spencer died on 9 January 1600 and was buried in St Mary the Virgin Church, Great Brington, the parish church for Althorp.

His monument was made by Joseph Hollemans, a Dutch sculptor residing in Burton-on-Trent.

Marriage and issue

Spencer married Mary Catlyn, the only daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Catlin, who brought him estates in both Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. They had one son, Robert, who became the first Baron Spencer of Wormleighton.

References

''HMC 4th Report: Lord Fitzhardinge'' (London, 1874), p. 367.

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