| Cynthia Ellinor Beatrix Hamilton ‡ | ||
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| Birth | August 16, 1897 | |
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| Death: | December 4, 1972 in Althorp, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom | |
| Father: | James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn (1869-1953) | |
| Mother: | Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham (1869-1958) | |
| Husband: | Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975) | |
| Wedding: | February 26, 1919 in Piccadilly, England, United Kingdom | |
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Cynthia Ellinor Beatrix Hamilton was born 16 August 1897 to James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn (1869-1953) and Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham (1869-1958) and died 4 December 1972 in Althorp, in Northamptonshire, in England, at the age of 75 years of a brain tumour. Cynthia Ellinor Beatrix married Albert Edward John Spencer 26 February 1919 in Piccadilly, England.
Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Spencer, Countess Spencer, DCVO, OBE (16 August 1897 – 4 December 1972), known as Lady Cynthia Hamilton until her marriage, and from then as Viscountess Althorp until 1922 when her husband inherited his father's title of Earl Spencer, was a British peeress.
She was the daughter of James, Marquess of Hamilton, later 3rd Duke of Abercorn (30 November 1869 – 12 September 1953) and Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham (26 February 1869 – 18 January 1958). Her maternal grandparents were Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan and Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox, a daughter of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lady Caroline Paget.
Cynthia Hamilton married Viscount Althorp on 26 February 1919 at St. James's, Piccadilly, London.[1]
They had two children:
Countess Spencer was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth from 1937 to her death[2], and was the grandmother of Lady Diana Spencer, later the Princess of Wales. Cynthia, Countess Spencer died at the Spencer’s ancestral home, Althorp[3] of a brain tumour, aged 75.
She was little known outside court and local circles until, twenty years after her death, Andrew Morton wrote that the Princess of Wales "believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world."[4]
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| Offspring of Cynthia Ellinor Beatrix Hamilton and Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975) | ||
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| Anne Spencer (1920) | ||
| Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924-1992) | January 24, 1924 in London "London, England" | March 29, 1992 in London "London, England" |
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