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John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough

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

For other people named John Spencer-Churchill, see John Spencer-Churchill (disambiguation).

His Grace
The Duke of Marlborough
DL

Charles Spencer-Churchill

John Spencer-Churchill

John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill

(1897-09-18)18 September 1897
London, England

11 March 1972(1972-03-11) (aged 74)
London, England

Hon. Alexandra Mary Cadogan
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(m. 1920; died 1961)​
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(m. 1972)​

Blenheim Palace

Career[edit]

Prior to inheriting the dukedom in 1934, he was a lieutenant-colonel in the Life Guards, and served with distinction in France and Belgium during World War I. After the war, he served as Mayor of Woodstock, where Blenheim is located, from 1937 to 1942. His wife served as the first woman mayor of Woodstock.[9] He also served as High Steward of Oxford in 1937. He enlisted during World War II and was a military liaison officer with the United States forces in Britain.[8]


In 1950, the Duke opened the grounds and many rooms of Blenheim Palace (including the bedroom in which Sir Winston Churchill was born) to the public to help defray the cost of upkeep.[10] Today, he is known as one of the originators of the "stately homes" business.[8]

Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill (1921–2000), who married Edwin Fariman Russell (1914–2001) in Westminster in 1943. They divorced in Reno, Nevada in 1966 and she married Guy Burgos Ossa the same year. They divorced in 1967 in Mexico and she married thirdly to Theo Roubanis in Philadelphia in 1967.[13]

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Lady Caroline Spencer-Churchill (1923–1992), who married Major Charles Huguenot Waterhouse (1918–2007) of Middleton Hall, Middleton-by-Youlgreave in Woodstock, Oxfordshire in 1946.[15]

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(1926–2014), who married four times.[16][17][18]

John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough

(b. 1929), a lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth II, she married Charles Robert Muir (d. 1972) at Oxford in 1953.[19]

Lady Rosemary Mildred Spencer-Churchill

Lord Charles George William Colin Spencer-Churchill (1940–2016), who married Gillian Fuller (b. 1946), a great-granddaughter of California industrialist and financier John D. Spreckels, in 1965.[20][21] They divorced in 1968[22] and in 1970, he married Elizabeth Jane Wyndham (b. 1948), a great-niece of the interior decorator Nancy Lancaster.[23]

Spreckels

1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough

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