Alice Spencer, English noblewoman (died 1637)

Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby

English noblewoman (1559–1637)

Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby 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.