Spencer, Aubrey George, Archdeacon, Bishop of Newfoundland (M)
b. 8 February 1795. d. 4 February 1872. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet and bishop of Newfoundland. Educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford. Ordained in 1819.
Worked as a missionary in Newfoundland and Bermuda. Married Eliza Musson c. 1825.
Appointed Bishop of Newfoundland in 1839 and Bishop of Jamaica in 1843. Travelled
around the Caribbean to British Honduras, the Bahamas, and Cuba. Returned to England
in 1855. Author of *A Brief Account of the Church of England* (1867). Biographical
information: *ODNB*. (AC, CC)