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{{Construction Site}}[[File:Sir-James-Calvert-Spence.jpg|thumb|Sir James Calvert Spence]]Professor Sir '''Professor Sir {{FULLPAGENAME}}''' , M.C., {{MD}}, {{DSc}}, {{FRCP}}, ({{LifeData |birth=1892-03-19 |birthplace= Amble, Northumberland |birthcountry= [[United Kingdom]] |death=1954-05-26}}) was a prominent British paediatrician in the early twentieth century.  Spence was a founding member of the British Paediatric Association (later known as the [https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/ Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health]) in 1928.  He practised established his practice at Newcastle upon Tyne where he developed an interest in social paediatrics, which included interests in support for [[breastfeeding]]<ref name="spence1938">{{REFjournal |last=Spence |first= |init=JC |author-link=James Calvert Spence |etal=no |title=The modern decline of breastfeeding |journal=Br Med J |location= |date=1938-10-08 |volume=2 |issue=4057 |pages=729-33 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2210420/pdf/brmedj04218-0002.pdf |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=20781788 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1136/bmj.2.4057.729 |accessdate=2023-03-26}}</ref> and in providing adequate nutrition to children in poor families,<ref name="spence1940">{{REFjournal |last=Spence |first= |init=JC |author-link=James Calvert Spence |etal=no |title=The Feeding of Children |journal=Br Med J |location= |date=1940-07-20 |season= |volume=4159 |article= |page= |pages=93-5 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2178990/pdf/brmedj04102-0023.pdf |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=20783212 |pubmedCID=2178990 |DOI=10.1136/bmj.2.4150.93 |accessdate=2023-03-26}}</ref> as the British nation entered World War II and shortages of food multiplied. [[Douglas Gairdner]] joined him in 1945 as his first assistantand stayed until 1948 during which time Spence served as a mentor to the younger Gairdner.Spence urged Gairdner to write a review of infant [[circumcision]], which was published in the ''British Medical Journal'' on Christmas Eve, 1949.<ref name="fate1949">{{GairdnerDM 1949}}</ref>

|title=On The modern decline of breastfeeding |trans-title= |language= |journal=Br Med J |location= |date=1938-10-08 |volume=2 |issue=4057 |pages=729-33 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2210420/pdf/brmedj04218-0002.pdf |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=20781788 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1136/bmj.2.4057.729 |format=PDF |accessdate=2023-07-11}}* {{REFjournal |last=Spence |first= |init=JC |author-link=James Calvert Spence |etal=no |title=Spence on circumcision

* {{REFweb URLwikipedia|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Calvert_Spence |title=James Calvert Spence |publisher=Wikipedia |accessdate=2023-03-26}}