John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough

For other people named John Spencer-Churchill, see John Spencer-Churchill (disambiguation).
His Grace
The Duke of Marlborough

Born (1897-09-18)18 September 1897
Died 11 March 1972(1972-03-11) (aged 74)
Spouse(s) Alexandra Mary Cadogan
(Frances) Laura Canfield née Charteris
Issue Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill
Caroline Spencer-Churchill
Rosemary Mildred Spencer-Churchill
John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill
Charles George William Colin Spencer-Churchill
Parents Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough
Consuelo Vanderbilt
John Spencer-Churchill with his parents and younger brother, by John Singer Sargent, 1905.

John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough (18 September 1897 – 11 March 1972), styled Marquess of Blandford until 1934, was a British peer.

Marlborough was born in London 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. Prior to inheriting the dukedom in 1934 he was a lieutenant-colonel in the Life Guards. He was Mayor of Woodstock from 1937 to 1942.

Family

The grave of the 10th Duke of Marlborough and his first wife at St Martin's Church, Bladon.

Marlborough married his first wife, The Hon. Alexandra Mary Cadogan (22 February 1900 – 23 May 1961), on 17 February 1920 in London. She was a daughter of Henry Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea, the son and heir of George Henry Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan. They had two sons and three daughters:

Six weeks before his death, on 26 January 1972, the Duke married his second wife, (Frances) Laura Canfield née Charteris (London, 10 August 1915 – 1990), the widow of the American publishing heir Michael Temple Canfield (whose first wife had been Caroline Lee Bouvier, the sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis). Canfield was the second daughter of The Hon. Guy Lawrence Charteris (23 May 1886 - 1967), second son of Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss, and his wife Frances Lucy Tennant (1887 - 5 November 1925). Laura's older sister, Ann Geraldine Mary Charteris (19 June 1913 - 1981), married the novelist Ian Fleming. Laura herself was previously married to and divorced from Walter Long, 2nd Viscount Long and William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley.

The Duke was succeeded by his son John Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford. He and his first wife are buried in the churchyard of St Martin's Church, Bladon.

Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ "Marchioness of Blandford's Infant Daughter Christened".
  2. ↑ "Duke of Marlborough dies". Blenheim Palace.
  3. ↑ English, Rebecca. The Royal Spice Girls reunited! The six women who accompanied Queen Elizabeth II on Coronation Day share memories as they regroup 60 years on in Westminster Abbey, Daily Mail, June 4, 2013. Accessed February 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Yvonne's Royalty Home Page: Royal Godchildren". Retrieved 21 December 2015.

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Peerage of England
Preceded by
Charles Spencer-Churchill		 Duke of Marlborough
1934–1972 		Succeeded by
John Spencer-Churchill
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