Sir James Calvert Spence
19 March 1892 – 1954
James Calvert Spence was born in Amble, Northumberland, the seventh child of an architect . After being educated at Elmfield College, York, he attended the Durham College of Medicine in Newcastle upon Tyne. During World War I he served in Gallipoli, Egypt and the Western Front. Upon returning to England, he worked as a house physician at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne and then moved on to work as a casualty officer at Great Ormond Street in London. In 1922 he returned to Newcastle, where he took up the post of medical registrar and chemical pathologist at the RVI. He also
