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John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
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John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, DL, JP[1] (13 April 1926 ā 16 October 2014) was a British educator. He was the principal of a school in his birthplace of Blenheim Palace.
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He was the son of Lt.-Col. John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough and his wife, Hon. Alexandra Mary Hilda Cadogan. He was also a relation of The Duke of Devonshire and a generational cousin of the war-time Conservative Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill.
He was also a distant relative of Diana, Princess of Wales as both belong to the Spencer family, and of the Vanderbilt family through his paternal grandmother, Consuelo Vanderbilt.
Spencer-Brown died in the morning of 16 October 2014 in Blenheim Palace, aged 88.[2]