The Spalding Papers

Research papers of Henry Norman Spalding and Kenneth Jay Spalding comprising typescripts on the subject of the character of man , compiled in Oxford between the two World Wars.

Administrative/Biographical History

Henry Norman Spalding was born in 1877. He was a civil servant in the Admiralty, 1901-1909, and served in the Admiralty and the Ministry of Munitions (Deputy Director, Welfare Department), 1915-1918. With his wife, he co-founded a Chair of Eastern Religions and Ethics, a University Lectureship in Eastern Orthodox Culture, an Advisership in Eastern Art, and four temporary Senior Research Fellowships in Indian history and religion at Oriel and Brasenose Colleges, the University of Oxford. He also contributed to the gift of books made by Oxford University to China, 1939, and to the Universities of Europe and Asia, 1947. He co-founded the Association of British Orientalists, Museum of Eastern Art at Oxford. He published poetry, and the monograph Civilisation in East and West (1939). He died in 1953.

Kenneth Jay Spalding, younger brother of Henry Norman Spalding, was born in 1879. He was a lecturer in French at Culham College, 1903-1905, and in Logic and Philosophy at King's College, London, 1905-1912. He was Professor of Classical Literature and Philosophy, Queen's College, London, 1909-1928. Throughout his career he published monographs and articles on philosophy and associated matters. He died in 1962.

Reference: University of Birmingham, Special Collections Department, Online Archive Catalogue ( http://calmview.bham.ac.uk/ ). Accessed April 2002.

Access Conditions

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was deposited in Selly Oak Colleges Library, Sep 1969 by the Spalding Trust.

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