Robert Spencer, 1st Viscount Teviot (1629 - 20 May 1694), styled The Honourable Robert Spencer until 1685, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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 from 1660 to 1679.

Spencer was a younger son of William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, and his wife Lady Penelope Wriothesley, daughter of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton

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. Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland

Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland

Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, 3rd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton , known as The Lord Spencer between 1636 and June 1643, was an English peer who fought and died in the English civil war on the side of the Cavaliers.Henry was born at Althorp to William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer and was...

 was his elder brother. He was baptised on 2 February 1629. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford

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 and was admitted at King's College, Cambridge

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 in 1646.

In 1660, Spencer was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Great Bedwyn

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 in the Convention Parliament. In 1661 he was elected MP for Brackley

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 in the Cavalier Parliament

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 and sat until 1679. He was created Viscount Teviot in the Peerage of Scotland

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on 10 October 1685.

Spencer married Jane Spencer, daughter of Sir Thomas Spencer, of Yarnton, Oxfordshire.