[3][2] The future 6th Earl Spencer was created Viscount Althorp, of Great Brington in the County of Northampton, on 19 December 1905 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

[2] It includes the civil parish of Althorp, in West Northamptonshire, of about 13,000 acres (5,300 ha).

The crest, emerging from the coronet, is a griffin's head argent, gorged with a bar gemelle gules between two wings expanded of the second.

The motto is Dieu defend le droit (French: God protects the right).

[7] The heir apparent is the present holder's son Louis Frederick John Spencer, Viscount Althorp (b.