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Leonard James Spencer CBE FRS (7 July 1870 – 14 April 1959) was a British geologist. He was an Honorary member of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and also a recipient of its Bolitho Medal. He was president of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1936 to 1939. In mineralogy, Spencer was an original investigator who described several new minerals, including miersite, tarbuttite and parahopeite. He also did important work as a curator, editor and bibliographer. He was the third person to receive the Roebling Medal, the highest award of the Mineralogical Society of America. In 1937, he was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London. He wrote at least 146 articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.

His daughter, Penelope Spencer became a successful free-style dancer and choreographer.

References

1. Tilley, C. E. (1961). "Leonard James Spencer. 1870-1959". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 7: 243–248. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1961.0019.
2. "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36210. ISBN 978-0-19-861411-1. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. http://www.minersoc.org/pages/Archive-MM/Volume_29/29-211-256.pdf W. Campbell Smith "L. J. Spencer's work at the British Museum" page 269
4. "Spencer, Leornard James (SPNR889LJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
5. "Memorial of Leonard James Spencer" (PDF). The American Mineralogist. 45: 403–406. March–April 1960.
6. Winchell, A. N. "Presentation of the third Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America to Leonard James Spencer". American Mineralogist. 26: 26–166. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
7. "Author:Leonard James Spencer". Wikisource. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
8. R. J. Barman (12 October 1993). "Obituary: Penelope Spencer". The Independent. Retrieved 4 March 2014.

External links

• Works by or about Leonard James Spencer at the Internet Archive
• http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/collectors_corner/arc/roebling3.htm
• L. J. Spencer with an appendix by W. D. Hamman (1916). The World's Minerals. NY: Frederick A. Stokes Co.

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