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Authorised form of nameSpencer; William Kingdon (1878 - 1955); educationist and palaeontologist
Dates1878 - 1955
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBarrow upon Soar, Northern Leicestershire, England
Date of birth10 December 1878
Place of deathIpswich, Suffolk, England
Date of death01/10/1955
Occupationeducationist and palaeontologist
Research fieldPalaeontology
Zoology
ActivityEducation:
Batley Grammar School; Owen's College, Manchester; Magdalen College, University of Oxford MA, DSc (Oxon)
Career:
Joined the Board of Education as an Inspector of Schools and remained there until retirement (1904-1938) and during these years pursued research interests in palaeontology.
Memberships:
FGS
Honours/Awards:
Lyell Fund 1918
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/05/1931
Age at election53
ProposerFrancis Arthur Bather; Ernest William MacBride; Arthur Smith Woodward; William Thomas Calman; John Edward Marr; Henry Woods; Charles Tate Regan; William Dickson Lang
RelationshipsParents: John Firth Spencer, head master of the village school at Blyth.
Spouse: 1) Kate Violet Gordon Stewart (1904); 2) Joy Daisy Millard (1946)
Daughter: Dr Hermione Egerton.
OtherInfoAuthority on Palaeozoic starfishes.
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1956 vol 2 pp 291-298, plate, by H L Hawkins
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/283659242
CodeNA6024
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1931/14Spencer, William Kingdon: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/48/16Second referee's report by William Kingdon Spencer, on a paper 'The lantern and girdle of some recent and fossil Echinoidea' by Herbert Leader Hawkins[April 1934]
RR/18/183Referee's report by William Kingdon Spencer, on a paper 'Lapworthura: a typical brittlestar of the Silurian age; with suggestions for a new classification of the Ophiuroidea' by Igerna Sollas and William Johnson SollasJuly 1911
NLB/44/397Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W [William] K [Kingdon] Spencer4 July 1911
NLB/44/361Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W [William] K [Kingdon] Spencer27 June 1911
RR/20/134Referee's report by Francis Arthur Bather, on a paper 'The evolution of the cretaceous asteroidea' by William Kingdon Spencer8 February 1913
RR/20/135Referee's report by John Walter Gregory, on a paper 'The evolution of the cretaceous asteroidea' by William Kingdon Spencer21 March 1913
NLB/73/64Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS14 November 1930
RR/58/68Referee's report by William Dickson Lang, on a paper 'Two new Echinoidea, Aulechinus and Ectinechinus, and an adult plated holothurian, Eothuria, from the Upper Ordovician of Girvan, Scotland' by Ernest William MacBride and William Kingdon Spencer31 March 1937
RR/43/135Referee's report by William Kingdon Spencer, on a paper 'The development and function of the heart and pericardium in echinodermata' by Nidambur Narasimhamurti June 1931
RR/48/12Referee's report by William Kingdon Spencer, on a paper 'The lantern and girdle of some recent and fossil Echinoidea' by Herbert Leader Hawkins[February 1934]
RR/64/112Referee's report by Herbert Leader Hawkins, on a paper 'Two new Echinoidea, Aulechinus and Ectinechinus, and an adult plated holothurian, Eothuria, from the Upper Ordovician of Girvan, Scotland' by Ernest William MacBride and William Kingdon Spencer[October 1937]
RR/64/113Referee's report by William Dickson Lang, on a paper 'Two new Echinoidea, Aulechinus and Ectinechinus, and an adult plated holothurian, Eothuria, from the Upper Ordovician of Girvan, Scotland' by Ernest William MacBride and William Kingdon Spencer10 Septmber 1937
RR/74/13Memorandum from Cyril James Stubblefield, on a paper 'Early Palaeozoic starfish' by William Kingdon Spencer17 March 1950
RR/74/12Referee's report by Herbert Leader Hawkins, on a paper 'Early Palaeozoic starfish' by William Kingdon SpencerMarch 1950
MC/27/328Letter from [William Kingdon] Spencer, 19 Avondale [Road], Croydon, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]5 February 1912
MC/27/329Letter from [William Kingdon] Spencer, 19 Avondale [Road], Portsdown, Avondale Road, South Croydon, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]12 November 1912
RR/74/14Referee's report by Cyril James Stubblefield, on a paper 'Early Palaeozoic starfish' by William Kingdon Spencer12 April 1950
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