Spencer Carpenter

Spencer Cecil Carpenter (3 November 1877 – 19 August 1959) was an Anglican priest and author.

[3] He was ordained in 1903[4] and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Paul's, Walworth.

He was successively Vice-Principal of Westcott House, Cambridge; Warden of the Gonville and Caius College Mission in Battersea then Fellow and Tutor of Selwyn College, Cambridge.

In 1930, he left Selwyn to become simultaneously Master of the Temple in London and Professor of Theology at Queen's College, Harley Street.

In the same year, he also became Provost of King's College, Taunton, a position he held until 1953.