SPEED, SAMUEL, eldest son of John Speed MD, Southampton, Hampshire, and Margaret, dau. of Bartholomew Warner MD, Regius Prof. of Medicine, Oxford; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1645, matr. 1 Feb 1646/7, aged 16, Westminster Student; BA 1649; MA 1660; although he at first refused to submit to the Parliamentary Visitors, he was “absent upon leave” when ordered to take the Engagement by the Committee 17 Feb 1650 (Burrows, p. 329); he must however have been deprived of his Studentship by the Commissioners, for he was reinstated in 1660; ordained; Vicar of Godalming, Surrey, from 1662; Chaplain to Earl of Ossory, with whom he distinguished himself in the naval action against the Dutch off the Suffolk coast 2 Jun 1665; Prebendary of Lincoln from 20 Sep 1670; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 6 May 1674; Rector of Whitburn, co. Durham 1673-5; Rector of Alverstoke, Hampshire, from 1675; a letter from the Duke of Ormonde, Chancellor of Oxford University, asking for the conferment on Speed of the degree of DD was read in Convocation at Oxford 30 May 1674 (Wood, Fasti Oxon., ii, 347), but there is no record of the grant; fell into debt and was imprisoned in Ludgate Prison for several years; author of a translation of Valerius Maximus, Romae Antiquae Descriptio, 1678; m. ---, dau. of Rev. Edward Layfield, Rector of Chiddingfold, Surrey; d. 22 Jan 1681/2. DNB.
SPEARMAN, EDMUND ALEXANDER MALCOLM, elder son of Edmund Robert Spearman CMG, Secretary, Public Works Loan Board, and Lady Maria Louisa Fitzmaurice, youngest dau. of Thomas Fitzmaurice, 5th Earl of Orkney (S); b. 17 May 1864; adm. 19 Jun 1876 (G); left Aug 1877; mercantile clerk (1881 Census); d. 30 Nov 1896.
SPEARMAN, CHARLES, son of Gilbert Spearman FSA, Thornley Hall, Durham, and Middle Temple, London, barrister, and his second wife Margaret, dau. of Robert Pearson, Bishop Middleham, co. Durham; bapt. 15 Jan 1706/7; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1719; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 Mar 1723, matr. 1723; adm. Middle Temple 25 Jun 1722; d. 20 Jun 1725.
Spearman, Sir Alexander Bowyer Bt, son of Sir Alexander Young Spearman Bt, mining engineer, and Dorothy Catharine, d. of Capt. Thomas Bowyer Bowyer DL, of Iwerne Minster, Dorset; b. 15 Feb. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (H); left July 1933; 7 Rajput Regt IA 1941-8 (Staff Capt. GHQ India); FCII 1954; fire insurance man. Union Guarantee Co. Ltd Cape Town 1955-7, tech. asst to gen. man. 1957-8; succ. as 4th Baronet 11 Feb. 1959; dir. Jack Ginsburg (Pty) Ltd Cape Town 1960-7, Delta Insurance Consultants 1967-9, Nabco (Cape) Ltd 1969; m. 10 Apr. 1950 Martha, d. of John Green of Naauwpoort, S. Africa; d. 27 May 1977.
Spear, Trevor Hicks, son of James Spear of Deal, Kent, and Florence Elizabeth, d. of Capt. David Francis Wilkinson of Castro Urdiales, Spain; b. 22 Aug. 1900; adm. Jan. 1915 (H); left Dec. 1917; RMC Sandhurst, 2nd Lieut. The Buffs July 1919, Lieut. July 1921, Capt. May 1925; ADC to GOC Eastern Command India 1928-32; Brevet Maj. July 1938, Lieut.-Col. 1943, Col. 1944, Brig. 1952; served WW2 in N. Africa, despatches Dec. 1941 and June 1942; OBE Aug. 1945, USA Bronze Star Nov. 1945; Militarv Attaché Belgium and Luxembourg 1945-7; Grand Officer Belgian Order of the Crown Jan. 1947; Couronne de Chêne (Luxembourg), Chevalier Danebrog (Denmark); Military Attaché Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos 1952-55; retd 1955; chairman council of voluntary welfare work Cyprus 1957-60, Germany 1960-1; d. 30 Dec. 1989.
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