Henry Donald Maurice Spence (Spence Jones from 1904; 14 January 1836 - 2 November 1917) was an Anglican

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and

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in the last decades of the 19th century and the start of the 20th. The son of the barrister and Chancery reformer George Spence, he was born at

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and educated at

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and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and

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in 1865. He was a Lecturer in

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at St David's College, Lampeter until 1870 when he became

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of St Mary de Crypt,

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. From 1877 to 1886 he was

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of St Pancras when he became

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, a post he held until his death. As Dean, he banned performances of Edward Elgar's choral work ''

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'' from Gloucester Cathedral from 1900 until 1910 because of

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references in its text.Lewis, Geraint
"A Cathedral in Sound"
''Gramophone'', September 2008, p. 50 He adopted, additionally, the surname Jones (his wife's maiden name) in 1904. At some point he became a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

Works

*''Talmudical Commentary on Genesis'', 1883 *''Cloister Life in Days of Cœur de Lion'', 1892 *''The Church of England: a History for the People'' (4 vols), 1904 *''The Early Christians in Rome'', 1910 *"The Pulpit Commentary", 1909–1919

References

1836 births People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter Deans of Gloucester 1917 deaths {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub