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{{Construction Site}}[[File:Sir-James-Calvert-Spence.jpg|thumb|Sir James Calvert Spence]]Professor Sir '''Professor Sir {{FULLPAGENAME}}''', M.DC., F.R.C.P.{{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.

He established his practice at Newcastle upon Tyne where he developed an interest in social paediatrics, which included interests in providing adequate nutrition to children in poor families Spence was a founding member of the British Paediatric Association (later known as the [https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/ Royal College of Paediatrics and support for [[breastfeeding]Child Health]) in 1928.

He 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 assistant and 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}}