Walter Cook Spens
- Born: 1 Feb 1842, Barony Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- Marriage: Helen Gillespie on 2 Aug 1870 in St. Andrew's, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
- Died: 13 Jul 1900, St. Andrews, Edinburgh, Scotland aged 58
 General Notes:
Age 19 in 1861 Census of Govan, Glasgow, apprentice clerk, born Glasgow; 1870 marriage record in the District of St. Andrew, in Burgh of Edinburgh;
Age 39 in 1881 Census, Denton Cottage, Govan, Lanark, Scotland, advocate, Sheriff substitute of Larnarkshire
Death in general index, age 58, entry # 475, St. Andrew Edinburgh, 685/2
Author of Dreams and Realities; Poems, Edin., 1863, fp.8v0. See Lon. Reader, 1863, i. Darroll, and other Poems, Edin., 1882, cr. 8vo. With Younger, Robert T., advocate, Employers and Employed: being 1) an Exposition of the Law of Reparation for Physical Injury; 2) the Employer's Liability Act, 1880, Annotated with Special Reference to Decision in England and Scotland; and 3) Suggested Ammendments of the Law as to the Liability of Employers, Edin., 1887, p. 8vo.;
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation: Advocate, Poet.
Walter married Helen Gillespie, daughter of Sir John Gillespie and Margaret Ruth Robertson, on 2 Aug 1870 in St. Andrew's, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. (Helen Gillespie was born about 1849 in Ednburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland and died on 4 May 1927.)
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