On 20th December 1886 Margery Spencer Viscountess Greenwood was born to Reverend Walter Spencer of Fownhope Court in Herefordshire.
On 23rd May 1911 Hamar Greenwood 1st Viscount Greenwood [aged 41] and Margery Spencer Viscountess Greenwood [aged 24] were married.
In 1914 [her son] David Henry Hamar Greenwood 2nd Viscount Greenwood was born to [her husband] Hamar Greenwood 1st Viscount Greenwood [aged 43] and Margery Spencer Viscountess Greenwood [aged 27].
On 29th August 1914 [her brother-in-law] Wilfred William Ashley 1st Baron Mount Temple [aged 46] and [her sister] Muriel Emily Spencer Baroness Mount Temple [aged 33] were married.
In 1915 [her husband] Hamar Greenwood 1st Viscount Greenwood [aged 44] was created 1st Baronet Greenwood of Onslow Gardens in Kensington. Margery Spencer Viscountess Greenwood [aged 28] by marriage Lady Greenwood of Onslow Gardens in Kensington.
In 1923 [her son] Michael George Hamar Greenwood 3rd Viscount Greenwood was born to [her husband] Hamar Greenwood 1st Viscount Greenwood [aged 52] and Margery Spencer Viscountess Greenwood [aged 36].
In 1929 [her husband] Hamar Greenwood 1st Viscount Greenwood [aged 58] was created 1st Baron Greenwood of Llanbister in Radnorshire. Margery Spencer Viscountess Greenwood [aged 42] by marriage Baroness Greenwood of Llanbister in Radnorshire.
In 1932 [her brother-in-law] Wilfred William Ashley 1st Baron Mount Temple [aged 64] was created 1st Baron Mount Temple of Lee in the County of Southampton. [her sister] Muriel Emily Spencer Baroness Mount Temple [aged 51] by marriage Baroness Mount Temple of Lee in the County of Southampton.
In 1937 [her husband] Hamar Greenwood 1st Viscount Greenwood [aged 66] was created 1st Viscount Greenwood of Holbourne in London. Margery Spencer Viscountess Greenwood [aged 50] by marriage Viscountess Greenwood of Holbourne in London.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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On 10th September 1948 [her husband] Hamar Greenwood 1st Viscount Greenwood [aged 78] died. His son David [aged 34] succeeded 2nd Viscount Greenwood of Holbourne in London, 2nd Baron Greenwood of Llanbister in Radnorshire and 2nd Baronet Greenwood of Onslow Gardens in Kensington.
On 24th June 1954 [her sister] Muriel Emily Spencer Baroness Mount Temple [aged 73] died.
On 24th April 1968 Margery Spencer Viscountess Greenwood [aged 81] died.