The theory was popularized in the 1840s by Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle, and in 1860 Herbert Spencer formulated a counter-argument that has remained influential throughout the 20th century to the present ; Spencer said that such great men are the products of their societies, and that their actions would be impossible without the social conditions built before their lifetimes.

The first Marks & Spencer store in Central Asia was built there.

The Nana Glen property, a cattle farm ( 700 Black Angus ), includes a chapel that Crowe built for his wedding to Spencer.

The Hastings Symphony Orchestra performs in the Chautauqua Pavilion, built in 1907 and on the National Register of Historic Places, while the Hastings Community Theatre performs in the auditorium of the former Spencer Park School, built during the housing shortage of the 1940s.

Spencer Park, an 840-unit " village " built to house workers in the 1940s, is now Good Samaritan Retirement Village.

In 1874, J. Harvey Wilson II built a water-powered textile mill ( Wilson & Moore Cotton Mill ) at the base of Spencer Mountain.

The Classic Bridge located beyond the Orange Tree Garden was built for Georgiana Spencer.

Then in 1891 Reverend Peter Spencer Had another Church built in West Grove Pennsylvania.

Stander built up a 23-1-1 record, including a knockout win over future world title challenger, the hard-punching Earnie Shavers, and decisions over fringe contenders Jack O ' Halloran, Manuel Ramos, and Thad Spencer.

* Phenix, in the northwest corner of the town, is the site of the William B. Spencer home, built in the early 1870s, and now listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The Viscount Monck oversaw the first addition to the villa: a long wing extending to the east and built in a style that, while attempting to be harmonious with the original, was intended to resemble the governor general's residence in Quebec, Spencer Wood, which Monck greatly preferred over Rideau Hall.

In North America, the largest Chapter in the world is located at 1342 Naglee Ave. ; the headquarters of the English Grand Lodge for the Americas owns the Rosicrucian Park in San Jose, California, founded in 1927, which includes the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, the fifth planetarium built in the USA ( and the first to have a US-built star projector, built by Dr. Harvey Spencer Lewis ), the Rosicrucian Peace Garden, Rosicrucian Research Library, Grand Temple, Administration Building, Fountain Plaza and Gardens.

Marks & Spencer have built ( September 2012 ) what is being claimed to be their largest store apart from Marble Arch on a site opposite to the Coliseum shopping park.

Spencer House, St. James's, London, one of the last surviving true town houses still owned by the noble family which built it

Thanks to a contribution from the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation, the Olin Arts and Science Center was built to honor three members of the Olin family who have graduated from the school.

The Planetarium was the 5th opened in the United States, and the first with a Star Projector built in the country, constructed by H. Spencer Lewis.

It later expanded, and a branch of Marks & Spencer built next door, the entire estate renamed " The Brookfield Centre ".

The current resort was built in 1918 by Spencer Penrose, a Philadelphia entrepreneur whose brother was Senator Boies Penrose.

With the help of Israel Sieff, he built Marks & Spencer into an icon of British business.

Thomas Blanchard built his gun-stock-copying lathes ( 1820s – 30s ), and the work of people such as Christopher Miner Spencer developed the turret lathe into the screw machine ( 1870s ).

The first series of robots were originally designed and built by Dr. Spencer Smythe with the financial backing of J. Jonah Jameson who piloted them for the pleasure of personally hunting the superhero he hated for capture.

The dedication was done by then LDS church President Spencer W. Kimball and was broadcast by satellite, as part of the semi-annual church General Conference, to many LDS stake centers around the world.

Other treasures include an eighteenth-century nave with a wrought iron rood screen by Robert Bakewell, for which he charged the church £ 157. 10. 0d ; the memorial to Bess of Hardwick ; and the Cavendish brasses, including those of Henry Cavendish and Georgiana Spencer, the wife of one of the Dukes of Devonshire.

Over the course of his lifetime, Spencer began 31 churches, nearly all of them with schools, and was known as the “ father of the independent black church movement .”

Spencer Wanted another church Closer to Star of Bethlehem UAME Church and the sister of Mt Tabor AME Zion Church Which stands today.

Following the death of Church President Spencer W. Kimball in 1985, newly selected church president Ezra Taft Benson asked Gordon B. Hinckley and Monson to serve as his first and second counselors, respectively.

The church is the burial place of Spencer Perceval ( 1762 – 1812 ), the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated, and of murdered civil servant Edward Drummond.

In this case, however, Benson did not lose seniority in the quorum and he became the president of the church upon the passing of Spencer W. Kimball.

Succession to the presidency of the church is by chronological order of ordination to apostleship, allowing Spencer W. Kimball to become president of the church years earlier than Benson.

Upon Spencer W. Kimball's death in 1985, Benson became the president of the church.

In 1978, church leaders led by Spencer W. Kimball declared they had received a revelation instructing them to reverse the racial restriction policy.

This organization continued until church president Spencer W. Kimball's reorganization of the seventies in 1976.

In 1975, under the direction of church president Spencer W. Kimball, the First Quorum of the Seventy was reconstituted.

Since 1976, the three ( of 15 ) apostles who did not serve as a general authority seventies prior to their call are Russell M. Nelson, Dallin H. Oaks, and David A. Bednar, with Nelson and Oaks being ordained apostles in 1984 under church president Spencer W. Kimball, and Bednar in 2004 under church president Gordon B. Hinckley.

It was Spencer W. Kimball, exactly four years Lee's senior and seen as being in worse health, who would lead the church for the next dozen years and oversee the church's admittance of blacks to the priesthood.

He was frequently a guest at Yaddo, the Saratoga estate of Spencer Trask and his wife, Katrina Trask, and from both estates he developed a wide circle of influence, including many persons from the literary world, church, business, and government, who came to enjoy his gracious hospitality.

During the Michigan primary, the Carter campaign had Coleman Young, the mayor of Detroit, accuse Udall of racism for belonging to the LDS church, which at the time, did not allow blacks to serve in the church's priesthood ( since changed in 1978 by LDS Church President, Spencer W. Kimball ).

The death of church president Harold B. Lee created a vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve when Spencer W. Kimball, who had been serving as quourm president, became church president.

Lee's death the following year brought Spencer W. Kimball to the church presidency, who retained Romney and First Counselor Nathan Eldon Tanner in their positions.

Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer ( 1798 – 1857 ) built the church of St John as a chapel of ease and a memorial to his first wife, the former Elizabeth Georgina Poyntz whom he had married in 1830.

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

* 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.

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

* February 20 – The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Newton as Wilmington, North Carolina, named for Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, and patron of Royal Governor Gabriel Johnston.

Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister in the reign of George II of Great Britain.

A borough charter was granted in 1739 by King George II, which changed the name of the settlement from Willington, after Thomas Willing the first developer of the land who organized the area in a grid pattern similar to that of its northern neighbor Philadelphia, to Wilmington, presumably after Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington.

* The Right Honourable Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington KG KB PC

Church ," is a Methodist Christian denomination and the oldest independent black denomination in the U. S. It was chartered by Peter Spencer ( 1782 – 1843 ) in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1813 as the " Union Church of Africans.

* Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington ( 31 December 1730 – 13 February 1742 )

Spencer was a Compton family name ; Catherine Compton's great uncle Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, had been Prime Minister.

* Spencer Compton, 1st Lord Wilmington 1722-1730

Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington KG, KB, PC ( 1673 – 2 July 1743 ) was a British Whig statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until his death.

* Find-A-Grave profile for Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington

* More about Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington on the Downing Street website.

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