SPENCER, WILLIAM FRANCIS, elder son of Hon. William Henry Spencer (qv), and his first wife; b. 10 Oct 1838; adm. 3 Oct 1850 (G); QS 1853; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1857 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 6 Jul 1857, matr. 1857; Ensign, 46th Foot 31 Dec 1858; Lieut., 3 Dec 1861; Capt., 15 May 1866; retd. 16 Mar 1870; of Spring Grove, Bewdley, Worcs.; JP Worcestershire 1877; m. 17 Jan 1874 Margaret Georgiana, eldest dau. of Walter Hemming, Bewdley, Worcs.; d. 3 Jul 1923.

SPENSER, THOMAS, son of Rev. John Spenser DD, Vicar of St. Sepulchre’s, London, and Prebendary of St. Paul’s; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1616, matr. 10 Jun 1618, aged 16, Westminster Student to 1628; BA 1619; MA 1622.

SPERING, JAMES; b. ; adm. ; KS 1642, still in 1644 (Chapter Muniments 43114). [move to Speering]

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.

Sprigge, Joshua William Squire, son of John Joshua Sprigge, solicitor, of Slough, Bucks, and Kate Ivens, d. of Joseph Spriggs of Foxton, Leics.; b. 28 Jan. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (KS); left July 1930; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1930, BA 1933, MA LLB 1944; adm. a solicitor Nov. 1937; Coal Commission 1938-9; enlisted TA Mar. 1938; RA 1940-5 (Maj., GSO2); NCB 1946-51; asst sec. Inst. of Chartered Auctioneers and Estate Agents 1951-5; sec. RICS 1955-71, retd 1971; m. 12 July 1944 Anne Ruth Purnell-Edwards SRN, d. of John Purnell Purnell-Edwards, engineer, of Stroud, Gloucs.; d. 2 Aug. 1974.

SQUIB, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS 1640 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 140).

SQUIBB, ARTHUR, son of John Squibb, Winterborne Whitchurch, Dorset, and Lucy, dau. of Henry Harbin, Duntish, Buckland Norton, Dorset [thus Whitmore]; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1656, matr. 18 Mar 1656/7, Westminster Student (to c. 1674); BA 17 Jan 1659/60; MA 1662; ordained; Vicar of Netherbury, Dorset, from 1673; d. 1697. [Alternatively, Arthur Squib, son of Richard Squib, and Ann ---, bapt. St. Botolph Bishopsgate 9 Oct 1641 (IGI)].

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.

ST. JOHN, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1628, Westminster Student by 25 Mar 1629 – still 1636.

ST. LEGER, ARTHUR, son of Sir John St. Leger (qv), and his second wife; b. 11 Apr 1727; adm. Jun 1737; KS 1741; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. pens. 2 Feb 1743/4; Capt. in Ruth’s Regt.; served with French army in War of Austrian Succession; killed in action near Tournai, Flanders 11 May 1745.