George Spencer

George John Trevor Spencer (11 December 1799 – 16 July 1866) was an Anglican bishop in the 19th century and a member of the Spencer family.

Early life Spencer was born on 11 December 1799. He was the son of William Robert Spencer and Countess Susan von Jenison-Walworth. Spencer's brother Aubrey Spencer, became first Bishop of Newfoundland in 1839, then Bishop of Jamaica.

He was educated at University College, Oxford, receiving a B.A. in 1822 and an honorary D.D. in 1847.

Career In 1823 Spencer was made deacon by the Bishop of Lincoln and ordained a priest by the Bishop of Salisbury in 1824. He became Perpetual curate of Buxton until 1829, when he became Rector of Leaden Roding until his appointment as the Bishop of Madras in 1837. The post came through the influence of John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton, his brother-in-law.

Resigning his See in 1849, he was afterwards minister of the Marbœuf Chapel (English Protestant) in Paris; an assistant Bishop of Bath and Wells (4 October 185210 May 1853) and commissary during Bagot's illness; and then Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral from 1860.

Personal life In 1823, Spencer married Harriet Theodora Hobhouse (1798–1885), daughter of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 1st Baronet and, his second wife, the former Amelia Parry (a daughter of Rev. Joshua Parry). Among her siblings was Joanna Hobhouse who married Rev. Frederick Adrian Scrope Fane (a son of John Fane, MP) They had two sons and three daughters, including: Emily Joanna Elphinstone Spencer (1841–1927), who died unmarried.

Spencer died on 16 July 1866.