Baron Churchill (1815 creation)

Baron Churchill
Creation date11 August 1815
CreationFirst
Created byThe Prince Regent (acting on behalf of his father King George III)
PeeragePeerage of the United Kingdom
First holderLord Francis Spencer
Present holderMichael Spencer, 7th Baron Churchill
Heir presumptiveHon. David Spencer
StatusExtant
MottoDIEU DEFEND LE DROIT
(English: God defend my right)
The Barony of Churchill was held by the Viscounts Churchill from 1902 to 2017
Viscount Churchill
Creation date14 July 1902
Created byEdward VII
PeeragePeerage of the United Kingdom
First holderVictor Spencer, 3rd Baron Churchill
Last holderVictor Spencer, 3rd Viscount Churchill
StatusExtinct
Extinction date18 October 2017

Baron Churchill, of Wychwood in the County of Oxford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and held by a branch of the Spencer family. It was created in 1815 for Lord Francis Spencer, younger son of the 4th Duke of Marlborough (see Duke of Marlborough for earlier history of the family). He had previously represented Oxfordshire in Parliament.

From 1902 to 2017, the barony was subsidiary title of the viscountcy of Churchill. The title of Viscount Churchill, of Rolleston in the County of Leicester, was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 15 July 1902 for the first baron's grandson Conservative politician Victor Spencer, 3rd Baron Churchill. The viscountcy became extinct in 2017 on the death of the first Viscount's youngest son, the third Viscount, who had succeeded his half-brother, the second Viscount, in 1973.

The barony was inherited by the last Viscount's second cousin once removed, the great-grandson of General Sir Augustus Almeric Spencer, the third son of the 1st Baron Churchill.