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Sir William Spens, CBE was an eminent educationalist in the mid twentieth century, academic and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. LifeBorn in Glasgow on 31 May 1882,[1] one of four sons of John Spens and Sophia Nicol{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}, Spens was educated at Rugby[2] and King's College, Cambridge, graduating in natural sciences. Elected a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1907, he spent the rest of his working life in Cambridge, apart from wartime service between 1915 and 1918 with the Foreign Office, for which he was awarded the CBE in 1919, was made a chevalier of the Légion d’honneur by the French and appointed an officer of the Crown of Italy{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}. Elected Master of Corpus in 1927[3] he was Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1931 to 1933 and then chaired the consultative committee of the Board of Education (known in retrospect as the Spens Report[4]) which recommended the tri-partite split of secondary schooling into grammar, technical and modern varieties.[5] During the Second World War he was Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence for the Eastern Region, which prompted and exacerbated rumours that the cellars of Corpus extend across (and indeed further than) the entire college campus and that the college was to be used as the centre of operations for East Anglia in the event of a German occupation.[6][7] Spens wished to maintain the high moral ground in fighting the Nazis. He opposed the use of guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines to oppose any Nazi invasion as being contrary to international convention. He objected first to the plans of SIS in June 1940 and then to the operation of the Auxiliary Units - threatening to have them arrested![8] Spens retired in 1952. PersonalSpens married Dorothy Teresa, daughter of John Richardson Selwyn[9] in 1912; they had 4 children; a son and three daughters, one of whom died in infancy{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}. Spens died on 1 November 1962.[10] See alsoText of the Spens ReportNotes1. ^1962 Burke’s Peerage p. 1368 2. ^“Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} 3. ^The Times, Wednesday, 3 October 1928; p. 21; Issue 44701; col A University News, New Term Begun At Cambridge 4. ^Education Resources Information Center. Eric.ed.gov. Retrieved on 2012-06-04. 5. ^“A History of English Education, from 1760” Barnard, H.C: London, University of London Press, 1961 6. ^Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Britainexpress.com (2007-01-17). Retrieved on 2012-06-04. 7. ^Wine Cellars. Corpus.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved on 2012-06-04. 8. ^{{Cite book|title = Fighting Nazi Occupation: British Resistance 1939 - 1945|last = Atkin|first = Malcolm|publisher = Pen and Sword|year = 2015|isbn = 978-1-47383-377-7|location = |pages = 7}} 9. ^Peter Gosden, ‘Spens, Sir William [Will] (1882–1962)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; 10. ^Sir Will Spens Servant Of College And State The Times Friday, 2 November 1962; p. 15; Issue 55538; col A
| title = Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge | years = 1931–1933 | before = Allen Beville Ramsay | after = John Forbes Cameron}}{{S-end}}{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2012}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Spens, William}} 12 : Alumni of King's College, Cambridge|British educational theorists|Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur|Commanders of the Order of the British Empire|Knights Bachelor|Members of HM Foreign Service|Masters of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge|People educated at Rugby School|Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge|1882 births|1962 deaths|Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
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