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John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough. Lady Frances Anne Vane. George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough, DL (13 May 1844 – 9 November 1892), styled Earl of Sunderland until 1857 and Marquess of Blandford between 1857 and 1883, was a British peer.
Oct 20, 2023 · Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough (13 November 1871 – 30 June 1934), styled Earl of Sunderland until 1883 and Marquess of Blandford between 1883 and 1892, was a British soldier and Conservative politician, and a close friend of his first cousin, Winston Churchill. He was often known as "Sunny" Marlborough after ...
John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822–1883) George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough (1844–1892) Lord Randolph (Spencer-) Churchill (1849–1895) Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough (1871–1934) Sir Winston (Spencer-) Churchill (1874–1965) P.M. 1940–45, 1951–55
Portrait of John Spencer-Churchill with his parents and younger brother, by John Singer Sargent, 1905. He was born in London on 18 September 1897 as the first of two sons born to Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough and his first wife, the former Consuelo Vanderbilt, an American railroad heiress.
Consuelo Vanderbilt was the richest American heiress to marry into British aristocracy. Her mother, Alva, was ambitious for her daughter's marriage prospects and named her after Consuelo Yznaga, a childhood friend. Another of Alva's friends, Minnie Paget, introduced Consuelo to the eligible Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough ...
Jan 25, 2016 · 2. Consuelo Vanderbilt and Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. Nineteen years after Jennie’s marriage to Lord Randolph, his nephew Charles Spencer-Churchill, the 9th Duke of Marlborough, married the wealthiest and perhaps most famous Dollar Princess: Consuelo Vanderbilt, great-granddaughter of railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9 th Duke of Marlborough (1871-1934), was born in the Northern Indian city of Simla and educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge. ‘Sunny’, so named for the title he was born to (the Earl of Sunderland), was only twelve-years old when his parents the 8 th Duke and Duchess of Marlborough divorced.
