Andrew Spens

The Ven Andrew Nathaniel Wadham Spens (25 April 1844[1] – 13 April 1932[2]) was Archdeacon of Lahore from 1892 to 1900.[3]

His early education was at Edinburgh Academy. This was followed by Durham University, where he studied for his licentiate in theology as a member of Hatfield College, also earning the Barry Scholarship.[4] He was ordained in 1868. He held Curacies in Trowbridge, Tamworth, and Millbrook. He was Colonial Chaplain to British Guiana in 1870 before further curacies at St Paul's, Covent Garden [5] and in Mildenhall. In 1874 he went to India as a chaplain, firstly to Bengal. In 1875, he was the chaplain of Calcutta Cathedral. His service on the North West Frontier included stints at Sialkot, Karachi, Amritsar, Ferozepore, Multan and Simla before his years as archdeacon.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Genealogical web-site
  2. ↑ Deaths The Times(London, England), Saturday, 16 Apr 1932; pg. 4; Issue 46109
  3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p1444: London, Horace Cox, 1908
  4. ↑ "Durham University Calendar 1887". reed.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  5. ↑ Multiple News Items . The Standard (London, England), Friday, 14 February 1873; pg. 5; Issue 15147
  6. ↑ ‘SPENS, Ven. Andrew N. W.’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 11 April 2014
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Walter Harry Tribe		 Archdeacon of Lahore
1892–1900		 Succeeded by
Henry Wager Griffith



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