Spalding, Kenneth Jay (1879-1962)

K.J. Spalding was born in Eastbourne on 17 March 1879 and died in Surrey on 20 January 1962. His father was H.B. Spalding. He married Amy Katherine Baynes and they had two children, a son and a daughter. Amy died in 1932, and he did not remarry. Spalding was educated at the Collège de St Servan in France and Eastbourne College, and later earned an MA degree at Balliol College, Oxford. As a result of his early French studies, he was enabled to take up the post of lecturer in French at Culham College during the years 1903 to 1905. Subsequently, he was employed as lecturer in logic and philosophy at King's College London (1905-12). Spalding then became Professor of Classical Literature and Philosophy at Queen's College London, a position he assumed in 1909 and in which he continued until 1928. From 1928 onwards, he was a fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.