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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.

SPENCER, HON. WILLIAM HENRY, fourth son of Francis Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill, and Lady Frances Fitzroy, dau. of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton KG PC; b. 12 Apr 1810; adm. 1 Oct 1823 (Singleton's); went to Rugby Sch. 1824; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Jun 1828; BA 1831; MA 1834; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 18 Nov 1831; ordained deacon 7 Jun 1835, priest 30 Jul 1837 (both Salisbury); Curate, Northleigh, Oxfordshire 1838-40; Vicar of Urchfont, Wilts., 19 Feb 1839-50; Rector of Stoke Climsland, Cornwall 1850-73; Rector of Great Houghton, Northants, from 12 Feb 1872; m. 1st, 23 Jan 1838 Elizabeth Rose, second dau. of Thomas Thornhill, Woodleys, Oxfordshire; m. 2nd, 15 Jun 1852 Louisa Mercer, dau. of Sir William Pratt Call, Bart.; m. 3rd, 26 Sep 1893 Anna Maria Cowley, widow of Robert Francis Allen, and dau. of John Horton Sheppard, Towcester, Northants, solicitor; d. 21 Aug 1900.

SPRAT, THOMAS, only surviving son of Right Rev. Thomas Sprat DD, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, and Helen, eldest dau. of Devereux Wolseley, Ravenstone, Staffs.; b. 5 Apr 1679; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1692; Capt. of the School 1696; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1697, matr. 10 Jul 1697, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1697 – void 1707; BA 1701; MA 1704 (incorp. Cambridge 1715); adm. Middle Temple 13 Jun 1700; ordained; Prebendary and Archdeacon of Rochester from 4 Dec 1704; Vicar of Boxley, Kent, from 1704/5; Rector of Stone, Kent, from 1707; Prebendary of Winchester from 18 Nov 1712, and of Westminster from 29 Sep 1713; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I (Chamberlayne 1716); FRS 20 Mar 1711/2; Busby Trustee 19 Feb 1710/1; m. 9 Apr 1716 Frances, fourth dau. of John Horden (qv); d. 10 May 1720. Buried Westminster Abbey, monument in St. Nicholas’s Chapel.

ST. JOHN, AMBROSE, second son of Henry St. John, and Catherine, dau. of Rev. Henry Wigley, Pensham House, Worcs.; nephew of St. Andrew St. John (qv); b. 29 Jun 1815; adm. 13 Jan 1829 (Scott's); KS 1830; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1834, matr. 15 May 1834, Westminster Student; BA 1838; MA 1840; ordained deacon (Oxford) 20 Dec 1840, priest (Canterbury) 22 May 1842; Curate, Walmer, Kent 1840-5; received into Roman Catholic Church Oct 1845; accompanied J. H. Newman to Rome 1846, where they joined the Oratorians and were ordained RC priests 1847; one of original Oratorian community which Newman established at Maryvale Jan 1848 and which moved to Hagley Road, Edgbaston 1852; volunteered with Newman to assist the Catholic priests at Bilston during cholera epidemic 1849; Head Master, Oratory School, Edgbaston, from 1862; went on mission to Rome 1867 about the Oratory School and the proposed Oratory at Oxford; broke down from overwork while translating Fessler’s book True and False Infallibility; called in Rome Newman’s “Angel Guardian”, and, “certainly”, Newman wrote, “he has been to me Azarias, the son of Ananias” (Ward, Life of J. H. Newman, 1912, ii, 410, 412); his name is singled out in the concluding paragraphs of the Apologia; d. 24 May 1875. Buried Rednal, Shropshire, where Newman was later buried in the same grave.

STEDMAN, JOHN, only son of John Stedman, Chester [presumably adm. 1800, qv]; b. 20 Jul 1817; adm. 18 Jan 1831 (Stikeman's); KS 1831; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1835, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1835, scholar 1836; adm, . Lincoln’s Inn 10 Jun 1835, called to bar 15 Jun 1840; equity draftsman and conveyancer; signed Play Protest 1847 as “John Stedman, jun. ”; d. 4 May 1872.

SUTHERLAND, ALEXANDER JOHN, eldest son of Alexander Robert Sutherland (qv), and his first wife; b. 7 Apr 1811; adm. 14 Sep 1818; KS 1825; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1829, matr. 2 Jun 1829, Westminster Student; BA 1833; MA 1835; MB 1836; MD 1838; St. George’s Hospital; MRCP 1840; FRCP 1847; succeeded father as Physician, St. Luke’s Hospital, Old Street; FRS 18 Jun 1846; m. Alison Johanna, dau. of John Wilson Carmichael (IGI); d. 31 Jan 1867.

SWABEY, STEPHEN, son of Maurice Swabey (KS 1799, qv); b. 21 Dec 1824; adm. 24 Sep 1838 (G); QS 1839; rowed v. Eton 26 Jul 1842; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1843, matr. 9 Jun 1843, Westminster Student; settled in Prince Edward Island, Canada; m. 7 Jul 1853 his cousin Katherine Margaret, dau. of William Swabey (KS 1803, qv); d. at Picton, Nova Scotia, Canada 4 Nov 1873.

TEMPLER, JOHN CHARLES, son of James Templer, Bridport, Dorset, and Catharine, dau. of Christopher Lethbridge, Launceston, Cornwall; b. 31 Jul 1814; adm. 9 Jun 1828 (Singleton's); left May 1832; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 24 May 1832; BA 1836; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 6 Jun 1853 [check : seems too soon before appointment as Master]; a Master of the Court of Exchequer from 1854; founder and editor Volunteer Service Gazette, the first number of which was published 26 Oct 1859; m. 1842 Hannah Frances, eldest dau. of Adm. Sir James Alexander Gordon GCB; d. 11 Jun 1874.

TEMPLER, JOHN, second son of James Templer, Stover Lodge, Devon, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Parlby, Gravesend, Kent; b.; adm. 24 Jun 1765; KS (aged 14) 1766; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1770, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1770, scholar 26 Apr 1771; BA 1774; MA 1778; ordained priest (Winchester) 21 Sep 1775; Vicar of Paignton with Maldon, Devon, from 2 Jan 1793; Rector of Teigngrace, Devon, by 1821 [check institution]; m. 2 May 1778 Jane, widow of John Line, Lindridge, Devon, and dau. of --- Routledge; d. 14 Dec 1829.

THOMS, BERNARD NATHANIEL, youngest son of William John Thoms FSA, Assistant Librarian, House of Lords, founder Notes and Queries, and Laura, youngest dau. of John Bernard Sale, Organist of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Gentleman of the Chapel Royal; b. 10 Dec 1843; adm. 27 Sep 1855; rowed v. Eton 3 Aug 1860, 2 Aug 1861, 1 Aug 1862; left Aug 1862; Assistant Surveyor-Gen., Post Office (in 1881); Postmaster at Nottingham; Hon. Secretary, Elizabethan Club 1864-7; [unm. in 1881]; d. 16 Jul 1908.