John Spaul Explained

John Edward Houghton Spaul
Other Names:	J. E. H. Spaul (when writing)
Birth Date:	1926
Birth Place:	Oakham
Death Date:	2018
Death Place:	Longparish
Alma Mater:	Durham University
Known For:	Roman historian and author

John Edward Houghton Spaul^[1] (1926–2018), sometimes known professionally as J. E. H. Spaul, was a British ancient historian^[2] and epigrapher. Much of his work focused on the Army of the Roman Empire.

Education

Spaul was born in Oakham in Rutland.^[3] He studied at Durham University, where he edited Palatinate during Michaelmas term of 1948; and stayed on to complete a Diploma of Education (1951). By 1954, he was teaching at Giggleswick School.^[4] After some six years of study concurrent to his teaching career, he earned his MLitt (1958) from Durham.^{[1] [5]} His thesis, supervised by Eric Birley, was on the Roman province of Mauretania Tingitana.^[6]

Career

For a period of three years in the 1960s Spaul lived in Blantyre, Malawi, where he was a history teacher at the University of Malawi, before returning to the United Kingdom and settling in Longparish, near Andover, Hampshire.^[7]

Publications

Books

• Spaul, John. Ala²: The Auxiliary Cavalry Units of the Pre-Diocletian Imperial Roman Army. Nectoreca Press, 1994. ^{[8] [9]}
• Spaul, John. Cohors²: The evidence for and a short history of the auxiliary infantry units of the Imperial Roman Army. Archaeopress, 2000. ^{[9] [10] [11]}
• Spaul, J. E. H. Classes Imperii Romani : an epigraphic examination of the men of the imperial Roman navy. Nectoreca, 2002.

Articles

• Swinbank, Brenda, and John Edward Houghton Spaul. "The Spacing of the Forts on Hadrian's Wall." Archaeologia Aeliana, no. 29, ser. 4, 1951, pp. 221–238. 4.
• Spaul, J. E. H. "In Mavretania Tingitana, Svb Volusio Martiale?" Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, vol. 94, 1992, pp. 279–280
• Spaul, J. E. H. "T.Fl.Neon: A First Century Prefect?" Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, vol. 94, 1992, pp. 281–282
• Spaul, J. E. H. "A Note on IAM 809 = CIL XVI 182." Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, vol. 96, 1993, pp. 109–110
• Spaul, J. E. H. "I.A.M. 2,250 = AE 1967,655 and the Identification of Colonia Babba." Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, vol. 103, 1994, pp. 191–201
• Spaul, J. E. H. "Governors of Tingitana" Antiquités africaines, vol. 30, no. 1, 1994, pp. 235–260. PDF
• Spaul, J. E. H. "Ala I Pannoniorvm: One or Many?" Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, vol. 105, 1995, pp. 63–73

Family life

In July 1960 he married Marion Spaul (née Nelder),^[7] who died in January 2021.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Graduates of the University . Graduates of the University; with Supplement to 1960 . December 1960 . 212 . 6 May 2021 . Durham University.
2. Web site: Hidden history of Hampshire town: A Barry Shurlock feature . 2022-04-05 . Hampshire Chronicle . en.
3. Web site: Births Dec 1926. 6 May 2021. FreeBMD. Office for National Statistics.
4. Master's Notebook . Hatfield Record . Spring 1954 . II . 1 . 3 . 9 December 2023.
5. Web site: Past Editors . . 12 October 2015 . 6 May 2021.
6. Spaul, J. E. H. (1958) Studies in the Roman province of Mauretania Tingitana. Masters thesis, Durham University PDF
7. Web site: Ashworth . James . Beloved Winton schoolteacher and hospice volunteer passes away aged 98 . . 6 May 2021 . en . 10 February 2021.
8. Shatzman . Israel . Scripta Classica . 291–293 . Review of Ala² . 16 . 1997.
9. Țentea . Ovidiu . Matei-Popescu . Florian . 1 . Acta Musei Napocensis . 259–296 . Alae et cohortes Daciae et Moesiae: A review and update of J. Spaul's Ala² and Cohors² . 39–40 . 2004.
10. Lendon . J. E. . April–May 2004 . 4 . The Classical Journal . 3298297 . 441–449 . The Roman Army Now (Review of Cohors²) . 99.
11. Shatzman . Israel . Scripta Classica . 331–333 . Reviews of Cohors² . 22 . 2003.