Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, English soldier, (1823).Artist: J Thomson

Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, English soldier, (1823).Artist: J Thomson

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Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, English soldier, (1823). Spencer (c1620-1643) fought on the side of the Royalists in several battles during the English Civil War. He was at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642, the Siege of Gloucester in August 1643 and the First Battle of Newbury in September of that year where he was killed, aged 23, by a cannon ball.

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