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Anglican priest and author (1877–1959)

Spencer Cecil Carpenter (3 November 1877 – 19 August 1959) was an Anglican priest and author. He was the Dean of Exeter in the Church of England from 1935 to 1950.

Carpenter was educated at University College School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1903 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. From 1922 to 1930 he was Vicar and Rural Dean of St Peter's, Bolton.

In 1929, he became an Honorary Chaplain to the King. In 1930, he left Selwyn to become simultaneously Master of the Temple in London and Professor of Theology at Queen's College, Harley Street. He retained all three positions until his appointment to the Deanery in 1935. In the same year, he also became Provost of King's College, Taunton, a position he held until 1953.

Works

A Parson’s Defence, 1912
Christianity according to St Luke, 1919
A Large Room, 1923
The Anglican Tradition, 1928
The Church and Politics, 1934
The Bible View of Life, 1937
Faith in Time of War, 1940
Exeter Cathedral, 1942
Life of Bishop Winnington-Ingram, 1949
The Church in England, 597–1688, 1954
Duncan-Jones of Chichester, 1956
Eighteenth Century Church and People, 1959

References

“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
Dr. S. C. Carpenter: Former Dean Of Exeter The Times Thursday, 20 Aug 1959; pg. 10; Issue 54544; col D
"Carpenter, Spencer Cecil (CRPR896SC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
Carpenter on the King's College, Taunton website, accessed 2 December 2015

Church of England titles
Preceded byWalter Robert Matthews	Dean of Exeter 1935–1950	Succeeded byAlexander Ross Wallace

v t e Deans of Exeter
High Medieval	Serlo Roger de Wynkleigh William de Stanwey Roger de Toriz John Noble John Pycot Andrew de Kilkenny
Late Medieval	Henry de Somerset Thomas de Lechlade Bartholomew de Sancto Laurentio Richard de Coleton Richard de Braylegh Reginald de Bugwell Robert Sumpter Thomas Walkyngton Ralph Tregrision Stephen Payn John Cobethorn John Hals Henry Webber Peter Courtenay Lionel Woodville John Arundel
Early modern	Edward Willoughby Thomas Hobbes John Vesey Richard Pace Reginald Pole Simon Haynes James Haddon Thomas Reynolds Gregory Dodds George Carew Stephen Townesend Matthew Sutcliffe William Peterson Seth Ward Edward Young George Cary Richard Annesley William Wake Lancelot Blackburne Edward Trelawney John Gilbert Alured Clarke William Holmes Charles Lyttleton Jeremiah Milles William Buller Charles Harward
Late modern	Charles Talbot George Gordon John Garnett Whittington Landon Thomas Lowe Charles Ellicott The Viscount Midleton Archibald Boyd Benjamin Cowie Alfred Earle Henry Gamble Walter Matthews Spencer Carpenter Alexander Wallace Marcus Knight Clifford Chapman Richard Eyre Keith Jones Jonathan Meyrick Jonathan Draper

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