Spence, Joseph, a miscellaneous writer, born in Hants; educated at and a Fellow of Oxford; his principal work, “Polymetis; or, an Inquiry into the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets and the Remains of Ancient Artists”; his “Anecdotes” are valuable from his acquaintance with the literary class of the time, and have preserved his name (1699‒1768).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Speke, John Banning * Spencer, Herbert