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{{short description|British academic (1874–1955)}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name = Lewis Spence
| image = Lewis Spence writer.png
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1874|11|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Monifieth]], [[Angus, Scotland]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1955|3|3|1874|1|25|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]]
| nationality = [[Scotland|Scottish]]
| occupation = Journalist, folklorist, occult scholar
| subject = [[Scottish folklore]], old British, German, and Aztec [[mythology]], [[Atlantis]]
}}

[[File:The grave of Lewis Spence, Dean Cemetery.jpg|thumb|The grave of Lewis Spence, [[Dean Cemetery]]]]
'''James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence''' (25 November 1874 – 3 March 1955) was a [[Scotland|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.<ref>Brief details of his career are available in the introduction to the 1997 reprint of ''An Encyclopaedia of Occultism'' ([http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/s/spence_lewis.html on-line text]).</ref> He founded the [[Scottish National Movement]].