| Authorised form of name | Spencer; Sir; Walter Baldwin (1860 - 1929) |
| Dates | 1860 - 1929 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Stretford, Lancashire, England |
| Date of birth | 23 June 1860 |
| Place of death | Hoste Island, off Tierra del Fuego |
| Date of death | 14/07/1929 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Magellanes |
| Research field | Biology |
| Anthropology |
| Activity | Education:
Owens College, Manchester; Exeter College, Oxford. BA (1884); MA (Melbourne)
Career:
Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford (1886); Professor of Biology, University of Melbourne (1887-1919); began to study Aborigines of Central Australia whilst on expedition (1894); President, Professorial Board (1904-1911); Chief Protector of Aborigines (1912); resigned his Chair and was made Emeritus Professor (1919); went to Tierra del Fuego to investigate Indians at Ushuana, where he became ill and died (1929)
Honours:
CMG 1904; KCMG 1916
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 14/06/1900 |
| Relationships | Son of Reuben Spencer; married (1887) Mary Bowman; two daughters |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; AE
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1930 vol 106 pp vi-x, plate, by Grafton Elliot Smith
References:
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/27147464 |
| Royal Society code | NA5918 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| NLB/18/12 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor E Ray Lankester, Fellow of the Royal Society | 22 December 1898 |
| NLB/21/196 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Baldwin Spencer, Fellow of the Royal Society, The University, Melbourne, Victoria | 25 September 1900 |
| NLB/58/184 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Walter] Baldwin Spencer, FRS | 23 March 1920 |
| NLB/53/247 | Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison], Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent | 09 June 1916 |
| NLB/57/28 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir W [Walter] Baldwin Spencer, FRS | 4 July 1919 |
| NLB/63/58 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Dr. Vernon Kellogg, Secretary, National Research Council, 1701, Massachusetts Avenue, Washington D.C., USA | 16 June 1922 |
| NLB/68/619 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Edwin Stephen] Goodrich, FRS | 24 September 1925 |
| CD/5/4 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society, to Professor [Wilfred Eade] Agar, Professor [William Blaxland] Benham, Sir [Tannatt William] Edgeworth David, and Sir [Walter] Baldwin Spencer | 16 June 1922 |
| EC/1900/14 | Spencer, Sir Walter Baldwin: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PP/8/36 | Paper, 'On the presence and structure of Leydig's "frontal organ" in Lacertilia' by W [Walter] Baldwin Spencer | 1886 |