Spence, Henry Donald Maurice

Church of England; b. in London in the year 1836; educated at Corpus Christ i College, Cambridge; took Cams undergraduate university prize, 1862; B.A., 1864; first-cla in the theological tripos, 1865; Cams and Scholefield university prize, 1865, 1866; M.A., 1866; ordained deacon 1865, priest 1866; became profe or of English literature and modern languages, and Hebrew lecturer, at St. David's College, Lampeter, 1865; rector of St. Mary-de-Crypt, with All Saints and St. Owen, Gloucester, 1870; and principal of Gloucester College, 1875; resigned the two latter positions, and became vicar of St. Pancras and rural dean, 1877. In 1870 he was appointed examining chaplain to the bishop of Gloucester and Bristol; in 1875 honorary canon of Gloucester. He is editor of The Pulpit Commentary, London, 1880 sqq.; and has contributed to Bishop Ellicott's Commentary (First Samuel and Pastoral Epistles), and to Dr. Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament (on Acts, with Dean Howson). He wrote an e ay on The Babylonian Talmud, 1882 on The Teachinq of the Twelve Apostles, 1884. *