Lewis Spence | |
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| Born | 25 November 1874 Monifieth, Angus, Scotland |
| Died | 3 March 1955 (aged 80) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Occupation | Journalist, folklorist, occult scholar |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Subject | Scottish folklore, old British, German, and Aztec mythology, Atlantis |
James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (25 November 1874 – 3 March 1955) was a Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar. Spence was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and vice-president of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society.[1] He founded the Scottish National Movement.
- ^ Brief details of his career are available in the introduction to the 1997 reprint of An Encyclopaedia of Occultism (on-line text).