Spencer, Baldwin, 1860-1929 (Personal Name)

The northern tribes of central Australia, 1904: title page (Baldwin Spencer)

Wanderings in wild Australia, 1928 title page (Sir Baldwin Spencer)

Australian Dictionary of Biography, via WWW, May 21, 2014 (Spencer, Sir Walter Baldwin (1860-1929); Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929), university scientist and administrator, anthropologist and connoisseur, was born on 23 June 1860 at Stretford, Lancashire, England; he graduated with a B.A. from the University of Oxford in 1884 with a first in science; he was appointed chair of biology at the University of Melbourne in 1887; he retired as emeritus professor in 1919; in 1929 he sailed to Tierra del Fuego to undertake anthropological field-work; after three months under bleak conditions, Spencer died from angina pectoris on 14 July 1929 in a snowbound hut on Navarin Island; elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1900, he was appointed C.M.G. in 1904 and K.C.M.G. in 1916)