Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby
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Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby (4 May 1559- January 1637), was an aristocratic English woman, and a patron of the arts. Poet Edmund Spenser represented her as "Amaryllis" in his pastoral poem Colin Clouts Comes Home Againe. She was the wife of Ferdinando Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, a claimant to the English throne. Alice's eldest daughter was heir presumptive to Queen Elizabeth I.