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In 1873 [his father] William Spencer [aged 28] and [his mother] Anna Caroline Slack [aged 22] were married.
On 4th August 1892 Gilbert Spencer was born to William Spencer [aged 47] and Anna Caroline Slack [aged 41] at Cookham, Berkshire. He was their ninth surviving child.
Around 1918. Gilbert Spencer [aged 25]. "New Arrivals: F4 Ward, No. 36 Stationary Hospital, Mahemdia, Sinai".
Around 1920. Gilbert Spencer [aged 27]. "The Sheperds Amazed".
In 1922 [his mother] Anna Caroline Slack [aged 71] died.
On 23rd February 1925 [his brother] Stanley Spencer [aged 33] and [his sister-in-law] Hilda Anne Carline [aged 35] were married.
1928. Gilbert Spencer [aged 35]. Self-portrait.
In 1928 [his father] William Spencer [aged 83] died.
On 31st December 1930 Gilbert Spencer [aged 38] and Margaret Ursula Bradshaw [aged 32] were married at Holy Trinity Church, South Kensington, London. John Northcote Nash [aged 37] was his best man.
On 21st October 1936 [his daughter] Gillian Spencer was born to Gilbert Spencer [aged 44] and [his wife] Margaret Ursula Bradshaw [aged 38].
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In May 1937 [his brother] Stanley Spencer [aged 45] and [his sister-in-law] Patricia Preece [aged 43] were married in Maidenhead a week atter his divorce from Hilda Anne Carline [aged 47]. Her lover Dorothy Hepworth was present at the wedding (left in photo). She and Hepworth then went to St. Ives for the "honeymoon" while Spencer remained in Cookham to complete a painting. He, apparently, in his wife's absence slept with his former wife Hilda Anne Carline. Preece, as a consequence, refused to have sexual relations with him. He signed over his house to Preece. Preece and Hepworth evicted him from the house in 1938.
Patricia Preece: On 22nd January 1894 she was born. In May 1937 Stanley Spencer and Hilda Anne Carline were divorced. A week later he married Patricia Preece. On 19th May 1966 she died.
In May 1937 [his brother] Stanley Spencer [aged 45] and [his sister-in-law] Hilda Anne Carline [aged 47] were divorced. A week later he married Patricia Preece [aged 43].
In 1959 [his wife] Margaret Ursula Bradshaw [aged 61] died.
On 14th December 1959 [his brother] Stanley Spencer [aged 68] died at the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital on the Cliveden estate. His ashes were buried at Holy Trinity Church, Cookham [Map] in the same grave as his first wife [his former sister-in-law] Hilda Anne Carline: "To the memory of Stanley Spencer Kt. CBE RA, 1891–1959, and his wife Hilda, buried in Cookham cemetery 1950. Everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God: He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love."
On 14th January 1979 Gilbert Spencer [aged 86] died.