Alice Lucy

Alice Lucy or Lady Lucy (c.1594 – August 1648), born Alice Spencer, was a British puritan gentlewoman who was known for her charity and piety. She married into the property at Charlecote Park which she ran after her husband died in 1640.

Early life Alice Lucy was born Alice Spencer in or around the year 1594. She was the sole heiress of her father, Thomas Spencer of Claverdon in Warwickshire. She first met Thomas Lucy, who was to be her husband, when she was about eleven years of age.

Marriage Alice and her husband were said to have a perfect marriage. After her husband was buried at St Leonard's Church in Charlecote she arranged for a large marble memorial to be constructed for her husband and herself inside the church. It was noted that she would always cite her husband's best features. The memorial notes that her husband's "tables were ever open to the learned and his gates never fast to the poor".

Widowhood

Her eldest son, Spencer, inherited his father's title, In 1647 and 1648 there was a shortage of food in Warwickshire and Alice ensured that the poor had food. She ensured that where corn was sold that it was not just in large packages so that it was available to those who could only afford a small amount.

In 1648 both Alice and her eldest son died and her second son Robert inherited the title.