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'''Professor Sir {{FULLPAGENAME}}''', M.D., F.R.C.P., ({{LifeData |birth=1892-03-19 |birthplace= |birthcountry= |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 and 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 |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 |accessdate=2023-03-26}}</ref>
[[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>