Author: Spencer, Aubrey George
Biography:
SPENCER, Aubrey George (1795-1872: ancestry.com)
A descendant of the first Duke of Marlborough, Spencer was born in London, eldest son of William Robert Spencer (q.v.) and his wife Susan (Jenison), widow of the Bavarian Count Spreti. While he was an undergraduate at Magdalen College Oxford he published a five-page poem, The Farnese Hercules (1817) as well as The Coliseum (1818). He chose not to graduate and was ordained in 1818. In 1819, as a missionary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, he travelled to Newfoundland. But his health suffered from the cold, so late in 1821 he went to Bermuda and requested one of the vacant positions there, which he secured in 1822 and held until 1839. He married Eliza Musson, daughter of a wealthy Bermuda merchant; the couple had four children. Back in London in 1839, he was consecrated Bishop of Newfoundland. In three years' tenure he improved and expanded the activities of the church there, but his health again obliged him to accept the bishopric of Jamaica in 1843. He served in that post until 1855, then retired to Torquay, Devon, where he died. His other publications are occasional sermons, a collection of sermons (1827), and A Brief Account of the Church of England (1867). (ancestry.com 12 Oct. 2020; DCB 12 Oct 2020; ODNB 12 Oct. 2020)
Other Names:
- Geo. Spencer
- George Spencer