| Authorised form of name | Spencer; William Kingdon (1878 - 1955); educationist and palaeontologist |
| Dates | 1878 - 1955 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Barrow upon Soar, Northern Leicestershire, England |
| Date of birth | 10 December 1878 |
| Place of death | Ipswich, Suffolk, England |
| Date of death | 01/10/1955 |
| Occupation | educationist and palaeontologist |
| Research field | Palaeontology |
| Zoology |
| Activity | Education:
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 category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/05/1931 |
| Age at election | 53 |
| Proposer | Francis Arthur Bather; Ernest William MacBride; Arthur Smith Woodward; William Thomas Calman; John Edward Marr; Henry Woods; Charles Tate Regan; William Dickson Lang |
| Relationships | Parents: 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. |
| General context | Authority on Palaeozoic starfishes. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Sources | Sources:
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 File | http://viaf.org/viaf/283659242 |
| Royal Society code | NA6024 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1931/14 | Spencer, William Kingdon: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/48/16 | Second 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/18/183 | Referee'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 Sollas | July 1911 |
| NLB/44/397 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W [William] K [Kingdon] Spencer | 4 July 1911 |
| NLB/44/361 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W [William] K [Kingdon] Spencer | 27 June 1911 |
| RR/20/134 | Referee's report by Francis Arthur Bather, on a paper 'The evolution of the cretaceous asteroidea' by William Kingdon Spencer | 8 February 1913 |
| RR/20/135 | Referee's report by John Walter Gregory, on a paper 'The evolution of the cretaceous asteroidea' by William Kingdon Spencer | 21 March 1913 |
| NLB/73/64 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS | 14 November 1930 |
| RR/58/68 | Referee'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 Spencer | 31 March 1937 |
| RR/43/135 | Referee'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/48/12 | Referee'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/64/112 | Referee'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/64/113 | Referee'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 Spencer | 10 Septmber 1937 |
| RR/74/13 | Memorandum from Cyril James Stubblefield, on a paper 'Early Palaeozoic starfish' by William Kingdon Spencer | 17 March 1950 |
| RR/74/12 | Referee's report by Herbert Leader Hawkins, on a paper 'Early Palaeozoic starfish' by William Kingdon Spencer | March 1950 |
| RR/74/14 | Referee's report by Cyril James Stubblefield, on a paper 'Early Palaeozoic starfish' by William Kingdon Spencer | 12 April 1950 |
| MC/27/329 | Letter from [William Kingdon] Spencer, 19 Avondale [Road], Portsdown, Avondale Road, South Croydon, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 12 November 1912 |
| MC/27/328 | Letter from [William Kingdon] Spencer, 19 Avondale [Road], Croydon, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 5 February 1912 |