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Very Rev Prof Harry Spens DD FRSE (c.1705–1787) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1780.[1] LifeHe was possibly the son of James Spens of Alves, Moray and was living in St Andrews in 1730.[2] He is presumed to have studied divinity at St Andrews University. He was ordained as a minister in November 1744 and became minister of Wemyss, his patron almost certainly being the Earl of Wemyss.[3]. He is recorded as having sown 9 “lippies” of linseed on the church glebe (the land allocated to his manse). [4] In 1770 he became involved in a curious case in the Scottish courts. A local Scot Dr David Dalrymple, had returned from the West Indies with a negro slave, “Black Tom”, around 1767/8. The slave had converted to Christianity, being baptised in Spens’s church, and, in homage, took the name “David Spens”. David had then left his master and gone to work on a Wemyss farm. It was taken to court by the master in January 1770 but the master then dying by February the case was abandoned and the former slave kept his freedom.[5] In 1778 he was minister of East Wemyss and nearby Buckhaven, both in Fife.[6] In October 1780 he was made Professor of Divinity at St Andrews University.[7] When his wife died in 1781 he is recorded as living at Lathallan in St Andrews.[8] In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He died in St Andrews in on 27 November 1787.[9] Spens produced the first English translation of Plato's Republic in 1763.[10]. References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/projects/Moderators-of-the-General-Assembly-of-the-Church-of-Scotland/15939|title=Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland genealogy project|website=geni_family_tree|accessdate=14 May 2018}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Spens, Harry}}{{Scotland-reli-bio-stub}}2. ^ http://www.patrickspeople.scot/our%20family/8941.htm 3. ^ http://www.electricscotland.com/history/gazetteer/ParishOfWemyss.pdf 4. ^Statistical Account of Scotland vol 16, Sir John Sinclair 5. ^Black Personalities in the Era of the Slave Trade, P Edwards and J Walvin 6. ^ http://fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/placename/?id=906 7. ^A History of the County of Fife, vol.3 8. ^The Scots Magazine vol 43, p.55 9. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}} 10. ^Harry Spens and the First English Translation of Plato’s Republic https://satyagraha.wordpress.com/2015/01/13/harry-spens/ 5 : 1779 deaths|Ministers of the Church of Scotland|Alumni of the University of St Andrews|Academics of the University of St Andrews|Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland |
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