Spence, Henry ♂
Education
Professor of Biblical Criticism 25.12.1779 - 27.11.1787.
Birth/childhood
Probably born 10.9.1714 son of James Spence of Kirkton of Alves, writer, Edinburgh and Anne Robertson.
Career
Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen - M.A. 1730, D.D. 1781.
Licensed by Dalkeith presbytery 1738.
Professor of Biblical Criticism 25.12.1779 - 27.11.1787. [St Andrews University]
Publications - made first translation into English of Plato’s Republic.
Death
Died 27.11.1787.
Sources
- Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
- St AUL Corr. 8.1.1906