![]() 1368–98) was suppressing the Hu Weiyong uprising and abolishing the post of Chief Councilor of the Ming dynasty. As Jonathan once pointed out to me, in 1382, the very year Winchester was established in Hampshire, on the other side of the world in Jiangnan the Hongwu Emperor (r. When he was 13, Professor Spence matriculated at Winchester College, one of the oldest public schools in England, founded by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and High Chancellor of the Realm. His sister, a filmmaker, is also a professional translator of French, German, and Italian. One of Jonathan Spence’s two older brothers was a classicist and the other a chemical engineer. He also worked at a publishing house and art gallery, and was editor of one of Joseph Conrad’s works. Dermot Spence had attended Oxford and Heidelberg universities in the late 1920s and spoke excellent German. ![]() ![]() ![]() Professor Spence’s maternal grandfather taught at Clifton College in Bristol during the Great War, and his mother, who attended finishing school in London, was a passionate student of French language and literature. Spence, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, was born in England on August 11, 1936, the son of Dermot and Muriel Crailsham Spence. ![]() Wakeman Jr., University of California, Berkeleyįrom the General Meeting Booklet, 2005 AHA Annual Meeting ![]()
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