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Keywords: people Historian Kathy Emerson writes: Alice Spencer was the sixth daughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorpe (d. 1586) and Katherine Kytson. She married first, in 1579, Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange (1559-April 16,1594). By him she had three daughters, Anne (1580-1647), Frances (May 1,1585-March 11,1635), and Elizabeth (1587-1633), the last born posthumously. Her husband became earl of Derby on September 24, 1593 and when he died at Lathom House, Lancashire less than seven months later, there were rumors he had been poisoned or bewitched to death. He was buried at Ormskirk without an inquest. For a month after his death, his company of players performed as the Countess of Derby’s Men and as such may have given the first performance of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the wedding of the dowager countess of Southampton. They had been at Lathom House shortly before the earl’s death. As Alice had no sons, her brother-in-law inherited the title. In October, 1600, the countess remarried, taking as her second husband Thomas Egerton (1540-March 15, 1616/17), who later became Baron Ellesmere (1603) and then Viscount Brackley (1616). Alice’s daughter Frances married Egerton’s son John shortly after their parents’ wedding. In 1601, Egerton purchased Harefield Place in Middlesex and entertained the queen there in July of 1602. In 1603, Alice’s daughter, Elizabeth, married Henry Hastings, earl of Huntingdon. When she visited them at Ashby-de-la-Zouche in 1607, a masque by John Marston was performed in her honor. Together with her second husband, Alice founded the Bridgewater Library. In 1634, John Milton’s Arcades was presented at Harefield by the four sons and eleven daughters of Alice’s daughter Frances, who by then was countess of Bridgewater. Historian Kathy Emerson writes: Alice Spencer was the sixth daughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorpe (d. 1586) and Katherine Kytson. She married first, in 1579, Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange (1559-April 16,1594). By him she had three daughters, Anne (1580-1647), Frances (May 1,1585-March 11,1635), and Elizabeth (1587-1633), the last born posthumously. Her husband became earl of Derby on September 24, 1593 and when he died at Lathom House, Lancashire less than seven months later, there were rumors he had been poisoned or bewitched to death. He was buried at Ormskirk without an inquest. For a month after his death, his company of players performed as the Countess of Derby’s Men and as such may have given the first performance of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the wedding of the dowager countess of Southampton. They had been at Lathom House shortly before the earl’s death. As Alice had no sons, her brother-in-law inherited the title. In October, 1600, the countess remarried, taking as her second husband Thomas Egerton (1540-March 15, 1616/17), who later became Baron Ellesmere (1603) and then Viscount Brackley (1616). Alice’s daughter Frances married Egerton’s son John shortly after their parents’ wedding. In 1601, Egerton purchased Harefield Place in Middlesex and entertained the queen there in July of 1602. In 1603, Alice’s daughter, Elizabeth, married Henry Hastings, earl of Huntingdon. When she visited them at Ashby-de-la-Zouche in 1607, a masque by John Marston was performed in her honor. Together with her second husband, Alice founded the Bridgewater Library. In 1634, John Milton’s Arcades was presented at Harefield by the four sons and eleven daughters of Alice’s daughter Frances, who by then was countess of Bridgewater.
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