Richard Henry Spencer
Maryland Spencer-Hall descendant who in 1880 married Alice Herbert Whiting, a great-granddaughter of Anne Fairfax Carlyle Anne Fairfax Carlyle b. 1761 · d. 1778 Second surviving daughter of and ; married of Gloucester County, Va., in 1777 and died at seventeen the day her only son was born. ; author of the 1909 and 1910 Carlyle articles in the William and Mary College Quarterly that this site uses as its foundational Carlyle source.
Richard Henry Spencer was a son of Henry Spencer, “a lineal descendant of James Spencer, Jr. (1692), of ‘Spencer Hall,’ Talbot County, Md., whose ancestor, Robert Spencer, came from Bedfordshire, England, and was allied to the noble family of that name” [1] R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .
On 24 November 1880 he married Alice Herbert Whiting, daughter of George William Carlyle Whiting George William Carlyle Whiting b. 1809 · d. 1864 Fourth son of ; his 1838 marriage to Mary Anne De Butts Dulany of Welbourne, Loudoun County, joined the Carlyle-Whiting line into the Dulany family. and Mary Anne De Butts (Dulany) Whiting — making Spencer the in-law and great-great-grandson-in-law of John Carlyle John Carlyle b. 1720 · d. 1780 Scottish-descent merchant born in Carlisle, England, in 1720; one of the eleven founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what … in the Carlyle-Whiting line via Anne Fairfax Carlyle Anne Fairfax Carlyle b. 1761 · d. 1778 Second surviving daughter of and ; married of Gloucester County, Va., in 1777 and died at seventeen the day her only son was born. and Carlyle Fairfax Whiting Carlyle Fairfax Whiting b. 1778 · d. 1831 Only son of (Anne Fairfax Carlyle) and ; inherited the Berkeley County "Limekilns" tract under John Carlyle's 1780 will. Patriarch of the Carlyle-Whiting line down to the … .
Spencer wrote the two foundational printed Carlyle-family genealogies:
- “The Carlyle House and its Associations — Braddock’s Headquarters — Here the Colonial Governors met in Council, April, 1755,” William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume 18, No. 1 (July 1909), pp. 1-17.
- “The Carlyle Family,” William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume 18, No. 3 (January 1910), pp. 201-212; expanded as Carlyle Family and Descendants of John and Sarah (Fairfax) Carlyle. The Carlyle House and Its Associations (Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1910). The digitized 1910 book is available via the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/carlylefamily00spen.
Both articles are cited throughout this site as spencer-carlyle-house-1909
and spencer-carlyle-family-1910. This entity exists for editorial
transparency: the foundational Carlyle genealogy on which much of the
Carlyle-family material here depends was compiled by a Carlyle in-law,
not an unconnected scholar. Spencer’s Whig-progressive tone (cf. the
Eutaw Springs apostrophe to George William Carlyle, or his quotation of
Philip Freneau on the same subject) is part of why the material is
used here for genealogical fact and source-citation but quoted sparingly
for editorial color [1]
R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910)
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Richard Henry Spencer, "The Carlyle Family," William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume 18, No. 3 (January 1910), pp. 201-212; expanded as Carlyle Family and Descendants of John and Sarah (Fairfax) Carlyle. The Carlyle House and Its Associations (Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1910). The foundational Carlyle genealogy.
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