Spence, Ian Bowring, son of Harold Edgar Spence of West Wickham, Kent, and Joyce Enid, d. of John Edward Webster of South Norwood; b. 14 Apr. 1919; adm. May 1933 (H); left Dec. 1936; RASC in WW2; d. 3 July 2004.
SPENCE, JOHN, son of George Spence, Middleham, Yorks.; bapt. 31 Jan 1646/7; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1659-61; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1661.
SPENCER, ---; b.; in under school lists 1715-9.
Spencer, Algernon Edmund Arthur Farre, son of the Rev. Henry Spencer, Minor Canon of Chester; b. March 6, 1890; adm. (as non-resident) K.S. Sept. 25, 1902 (H); Mure Scholar 1906; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1907, matric. Michaelmas 1907; Gaisford Prize for Greek verse 1909; enlisted in the 28th Batt. London Regt.; Capt. East Yorks Regt.; served in Gallipoli, Egypt, France, and Siberia in Great War I; an accomplished linguist; served as cypher officer to the British Mission at Vladivostock after the armistice; assistant in charge of the Foreign Statistical Library at the London School of Economics Feb. 1920 till his death; m. 1920 Marjorie, daughter of Dr. William Brend; d. Jan. 10, 1922.
SPENCER, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 11) Sep 1722; in under school list 1726; left Mich. 1726.
SPENCER, WALTER MATTHEW, eldest son of Matthew Spencer, Horsington, Somerset, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Freke, Hinton St. Mary, Dorset; bapt. Horsington, Somerset 9 Sep 1760 (IGI); adm. 8 Feb 1773; Ensign, 9th Foot 19 Dec 1776; Lieut., 1 Jun 1780; Capt., 15 Dec 1784; [no longer in Army List 1790]; d. in Paris Nov 1823, aged 62.
Spicer, Frederick Patrick, son of Frederick Spicer, F.R.C.S. (I), of St. Marylebone; b. June 16, 1899; adm. May 2, 1913 (R); left Dec. 1917; R.M.C. Sandhurst 1918; Oriel Coll. Oxon., matric. Trinity 1919; B.A. 1922; called to the bar at the Inner Temple July 2, 1924; South-Eastern Circuit; 2nd Lieut. Beds and Herts Regt. Sept. 16, 1940; m. July 18, 1935, Jean Rhoda Mary, elder daughter of Arthur Lee, of Wigston Magna, Leics.; d. 8 Sept. 1981.
Spiers, Ronald Hayne, son of Sidney Nelson Spiers (qv); b. 14 Sept. 1919; adm. May 1933 (A); left July 1935; d. after an accident 1939.
Spiers, Sidney Nelson, son of Sidney Spiers, of Streatham, by Eleanor, daughter of Samuel Kiddle, of Peckham Rye; b. Sept. 4, 1886; adm. Sept. 28, 1899 (H); left July 1903; joined the British Red Cross Society May 1916, and served with the 36th Div. of French Infantry; French Croix de Guerre 1919; m. Sept. 8, 1909, Annie Mary Caroline, eldest daughter of Major Arthur Hayne, I.S.C., of Streatham.
Spokes, Peter Spencer, son of Peter Sidney Spokes, M.R.C.S., J.P., of St. Marylebone, by Agnes, daughter of Albert Anderson, of Dunstable, Beds; b. Dec. 23, 1893; adm. April 30, 1908 (R); left July 1912; Queen's Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1912; B.A. 1917; M.A. 1921; B.Sc. 1923; Lieut. 19th London Regt. (T.F.) Oct. 16, 1916, acting Capt. Aug. 3, 1917; served in France in Great War I; secretary, Imperial Forestry Institute (Univ. of Oxford), from 1924-38; F.S.A. 1937; extra staff, Bodleian Library, Oxon. since 1950; m. Sept. 2, 1924, Lilla Jane, elder daughter of John Hazelwood Clayton, M.B., of Edgbaston, co. Warwick; d. 1976.