The most nearly complete collection of Aldine editions ever brought together was in the Althorp library of the 2nd Earl Spencer, now in the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

* John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer 1902 – 1905

Alarmed by reports of French preparations on the Mediterranean coast, Lord Spencer at the Admiralty sent a message to Vice-Admiral Earl St. Vincent, commander of the Mediterranean Fleet based in the Tagus River, to despatch a squadron to investigate.

The Duke of Marlborough holds certain subsidiary titles: Marquess of Blandford ( created 1702 ), Earl of Sunderland ( 1643 ), Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ), Baron Spencer, of Wormleighton ( 1603 ), and Baron Churchill, of Sandridge ( 1685 ) ( all are in the English peerage ).

A younger daughter, Lady Anne Churchill, married Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland ( c. 1674 – 1722 ), and from this marriage descend the modern Dukes of Marlborough.

: Other titles ( 3rd Duke onwards ): Earl of Sunderland ( En 1643 ) and Baron Spencer of Wormleighton ( En 1729 )

* 1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.

However, there was a strong faction at the English court, headed by Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, proposing that Mary and William, because of their anti-Catholic position, should be replaced by some Catholic French heir.

Through his mother, both from The Earl Spencer and The Baron Fermoy Families, Harry is of English, Scottish, American descent and of remote Irish descent.

Too poor, even with his award, to pay the fees, he gained a job tutoring the seven-year-old Lord Althorp, son of Earl Spencer.

* Sir William Compton ( 1625-1663 ; third son of Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton )

* Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland ( statesman )

Gladstone's role in the decision to invade was described as relatively hands-off, and that the decision to invade was made by certain members of his cabinet such as Spencer Cavendish, Secretary of State for India, Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, Hugh Childers, Secretary of State for War, and Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, the Foreign Secretary.

* Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, British Prime Minister, 1742 – 1743, who gave his name to many of the places called Wilmington.

* Earl of Wilmington, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1730 for Spencer Compton

* July 2 – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

* February 16 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.

* October 27 – King James II of England dismisses minister Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland.

Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington briefly becomes Lord Privy Seal.

* May – Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton ( d. 1643 )

** Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland

* September 1 – George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, English Whig politician ( d. 1834 )

As they stood at the first-class rail, waving down to his wife and Casanova below, Lewis said, `` Earl, there is Gracie's future husband ''.

* 1471 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet ; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.

* 910 – The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

For Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury this was identical to the moral sense, beauty just is the sensory version of moral goodness.

* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

The most common black tea varieties are Oolong and Earl Grey, while jasmine green tea is a mainstay at almost all tea stores.

* Earl Jellicoe and Lord Lambton sex scandal ( 1973 ): Conservatives, junior defence minister Lambton is arrested for using prostitutes and Cabinet minister Jellicoe also confesses.

The estate is recorded in 1451 as " Bouchmorale ", and was later tenanted by Alexander Gordon, second son of the 1st Earl of Huntly.

It is now held by Clement Attlee's grandson John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee.

The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet called The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations which was published in the mid-1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle, the Earl of Eglinton.

Rhalina is taken hostage by the forces of Chaos and Corum has several encounters with the forces of Chaos, including Earl Glandyth-a-Krae.

* The standard translation of The Book of the City of Ladies is by Earl Jeffrey Richards, ( 1982 ).

Named for William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth — an important supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's earlier efforts but who, in fact, opposed creation of the College and never donated to it — Dartmouth is the nation's ninth oldest college and the last institution of higher learning established under Colonial rule.

The influential author Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury is also usually categorized as a deist.

The Dalhousie seal is based on the heraldic achievement of the Clan Ramsay of Scotland, largely because the founder of the university, the George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie was the head of the clan.

A public house in Motspur Park is named The Earl Beatty in his honour.

there is a school named Earl Beatty Junior and Senior Public School.

In John Aubrey's Brief Lives is the story of the Earl of Oxford, who bowed deeply to the first Queen Elizabeth and accidentally farted.

During the early 1580s it is likely that the Earl lived mainly at one of his Essex country houses, Wivenhoe, which was sold in 1584.

On 23 March 1581 Sir Francis Walsingham advised the Earl of Huntingdon that two days earlier Anne Vavasour, one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, had given birth to a son, and that " the Earl of Oxford is avowed to be the father, who hath withdrawn himself with intent, as it is thought, to pass the seas ".