Augustus Spencer

General The Hon. Sir Augustus Almeric Spencer GCB (25 March 1807 - 28 August 1893) was a British Army officer.

Military career
Born the third son of Francis Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill, Spencer was commissioned into the 43rd Light Infantry in 1825. He was given command of the 44th Regiment of Foot in 1845 and led that regiment at the Battle of Alma, at the Battle of Inkerman and at the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. He became commander of a brigade at Aldershot in 1856, General Officer Commanding a division of the Madras Army in 1860 and General Officer Commanding Western District in the UK in 1866. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army in 1869 before retiring in 1875.

Family
In 1836 he married Helen Maria Campbell; they had two daughters and a son.