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Spencer, Ernest Warren St George, son of Ernest Samuel Spencer of Wimbledon and Fanny, d. of Joseph Barwick of Twickenham; b. 16 Mar. 1900; adm. Sept. 1914 (G); left July 1918; 2nd Lieut. ASC in WWI; an engineer; sec. Brockenhurst Golf Club 1933-46, Hunstanton GC 1947-52, Woking GC 1953-68; m. 1930 Clara Joyce, d. of Lincoln Chandler of Angmering-on-Sea, Sussex; d. 5 Sept. 1989.

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.

SPENCE-JONES, HENRY DONALD MAURICE, eldest son of George Spence QC MP, Pall Mall, London, barrister, and Caroline --- (IGI); b. 14 Jan 1836; adm. from King’s Coll. Sch. 30 May 1850 (Rigaud's); BB 6 Mar 1852; QS 18 May 1852; left 1854; entered Civil Service; Private Secretary to Sir Douglas Galton, Railway Secretary to Board of Trade; Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1861; 1st cl. Theology 1865, 1866; BA 1865; MA 1868; DD 1887; ordained deacon 1865, priest 1866 (both St. Davids); Prof. of English Literature and Hebrew lecturer, St. David’s Coll., Lampeter 1865-70; Rector of St. Mary le Crypt, Gloucester 1870-7; Principal, Gloucester Theological Coll., 1875-7; Hon. Canon, Gloucester 1875-86; Vicar of St. Pancras, London 25 Sep 1877-86; Dean of Gloucester from 18 Dec 1886; Select Preacher, Cambridge 1883, 1887, 1901, 1905, Oxford 1892, 1893; Professor of Ancient History, Royal Academy, from 1905; assumed additional surname of Jones 1904; JP Cardiganshire; joint editor, Pulpit Commentary, 48 vols, 1880-94; author, Early Christianity and Paganism, 1902, and various other works; m. 11 Apr 1871 Louise Madeline Maria, younger dau. of David Jones MP, Pantglas, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire; d. 2 Nov 1917.

SPENCE, LANCELOT MOLYNEUX DALRYMPLE, brother of Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones (qv); b. 14 Sep 1837; adm. from King’s Coll. Sch. 10 Jun 1852 (James'); QS 1853; left Aug 1855; Clerk, Board of Trade, from Nov 1855; d. 4 Jul 1865.

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.

Speirs, William Christie Sleeman, brother of Alexander John Sleeman Speirs (qv); b. 11 July 1907; adm. Jan. 1921 (R); left Dec. 1922.

Speirs, Alexander John Sleeman, son of Sleeman Speirs of Moradabad, India; b. 26 Dec. 1905; adm. Jan. 1921 (R); left Dec. 1922; d. 3 July 2004.

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.