Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby (4 May 1559 – 23 January 1637) was an English noblewoman from the Spencer family and noted patron of the arts. Poet Edmund Spenser represented her as "Amaryllis" in his eclogue Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (1595) and dedicated his poem The Teares of the Muses (1591) to her.
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Alice Spencer 4 May 1559 Althorp, Northamptonshire, England
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23 January 1637 (aged 77) Harefield Place, Middlesex
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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