John Spencer,
DIVINE,
Was born at Bocton-under-Bleane in 1630, and educated at Canterbury and Cambridge, where he became University Preacher. After holding several cures, he was elected Master of his College (Corpus Christi), which office he retained till his death in 1693, though in 1677 he was advanced to the Deanery of Peterborough. He was the author of many sermons and treatises, but is remembered chiefly as a learned Hebraist. His great work, entitled "De Legibus Hebræorum" was published in 1685, and his complete works in 1717, under the care of Professor Chapellow.
[See "Master's Corpus Christi College," and "Biographia Britannica."]