Henry Cannon Spalding Jr.

SPALDING, Henry Cannon, Jr., died on January 13, 2023. He was the son of the late Henry Cannon Spalding, M.D. and Sue Sharp Spalding and spent his entire life in Richmond and Gloucester County. Henry was predeceased by his wife, Kaye Brinkley Spalding, who died in 2017 after 56 years of marriage. He then married Alice Horsley Siegel in 2019, who survives him. His sister, Margaret Blair Spalding Morgan, predeceased him.

Henry is survived by his three children, Mary Parke Spalding Holland (Wesley) of Goochland, Henry C. Spalding III (Wendi) of Richmond and Maria Blair Spalding Hadlow (Patrick) of St. Louis; and six grandchildren, Captain Robert Holland and William Henry Holland, Benjamin Cannon Spalding and Emily Willard Spalding, Seth Goodman Hadlow and Parker Blair Hadlow.

Henry attended St. Christopher's School in Richmond before graduating from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, and Hampden-Sydney College, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. Henry served on the boards of both the Episcopal High School and Hampden-Sydney, where he was a trustee emeritus at the time of his death. In college, he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa. He was also a former trustee of St. Catherine's School.

A lifetime resident of Richmond, Henry also had a passion for Gloucester County, where his family has a second residence. His book, Crab Nets and Sunsets, relates a few of those happy memories.

Henry worked for State Planters Bank as a trust officer for six years, served as a stockbroker and senior executive vice president of Scott and Stringfellow for 23 years and finally, as a managing director of Lowe, Brockenbrough & Co. before his retirement in 2000. He was an avid collector, and he and his wife Kaye donated to Hampden-Sydney their collection of early Virginia maps to the Bortz Library. Henry was the longest living member of The Richmond Stamp Club when he died, and a life member of the American Philatelic Society and a member of The Royal Philatelic Society of London.

He was a former member of The Country Club of Virginia and The Commonwealth Club, where he served as president. He was also president of the Roller-Bottimore Foundation, a charitable trust, for over 20 years. Among other eleemosynary entities, he was a board member of the Westminster-Canterbury Foundation, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation, The Valentine Museum and The Library of Virginia Foundation. Henry was a member of St. James's Episcopal Church and served as a vestryman. Memorial services will be held at St. James's Episcopal Church on January 19, 2023, at 11:30 a.m., following a private burial in Hollywood Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to Hampden-Sydney College, the Rosewell Foundation, or the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.