Henry Donald Maurice Spence

The Very Rev Henry Donald Maurice Spence (Jones), DD (14 January 1836. Pall Mall, London - 2 November 1917) was an Anglican dean and author in the last decades  of the 19th century and the start of the 20th.^[1]^[2]

The son of the barrister and Chancery reformer George Spence, he was educated at Westminster School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,^[3] and ordained in 1865.^[4] He was a Lecturer in Hebrew at St David's College, Lampeter until 1870 when he became Rector of St Mary de Crypt, Gloucester.^[5] From 1877 to 1886 he was Rural Dean of St Pancras^[6] when he became Dean of Gloucester, a post he held until his death. As Dean, he banned performances of Edward Elgar's choral work The Dream of Gerontius from Gloucester Cathedral from 1900 until 1910 because of Roman Catholic references in its text.^[7]

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

Notes

^ Obituary The Dean Of Gloucester The Times Saturday, Nov 03, 1917; pg. 8; Issue 41626; col E
^ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
^ Spence (post Spence-Jones), Henry Donald Moritz (or Maurice) in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
^ Photo of church
^ The Carmarthenshire Historian
^ Lewis, Geraint, "A Cathedral in Sound", Gramophone, September 2008, p. 50

Church of England titles
Preceded by Henry Montagu Butler	Dean of Gloucester 1886–1917	Succeeded by Henry Gee

Deans of Gloucester

16th century	John Man • Thomas Cowper • Lawrence Humphrey • Anthony Rudd • Griffith Lewis

17th century	Thomas Moreton • Richard Field • William Laud • Richard Senhouse • Thomas Winniffe • George Warburton • Accepted Frewen • William Brough • Thomas Vyner Robert Frampton • Thomas Marshall • William Jane • John Wickart

18th century	Knightly Chetwood • John Waugh • John Frankland • Peter Allix • Daniel Newcombe • Josiah Tucker •

19th century	John Luxmoore • John Plumptre • Edward Rice • Henry Law • Edward Henry Bickersteth • Henry Montagu Butler • Henry Donald Maurice Spence

20th century	Henry Gee • Harold Costley-White • Seiriol John Arthur Evans • Alfred Gilbert Goddard Thurlow • Kenneth Neal Jennings • Nicholas Ayles Stillingfleet Bury

21st century	Bury (ibid)

Office holders in the Diocese of Gloucester

The Bishop of Gloucester • The Bishop of Tewkesbury • The Dean of Gloucester • The Archdeacon of Gloucester The Archdeacon of Cheltenham

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Name	Spence-Jones, Henry Donald Maurice
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Date of birth	14 January 1836
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Date of death	2 November 1917
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