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HENRY CANNON SPALDING JR.

Henry Cannon Spalding Jr., died on Jan. 13, 2023. He spent his entire life in Richmond and Gloucester County.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Henry Cannon Spalding, M.D. and Sue Sharp Spalding Henry; his wife of 56 years, Kaye Brinkley Spalding, and sister, Margaret Blair Spalding Morgan.

Survivors include his wife, Alice Horsley Siegel; three children, Mary Parke Spalding Holland of Goochland, Henry C. Spalding III of Richmond and Maria Blair Spalding Hadlow of St. Louis, and six grandchildren.

He was a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He served on the boards of both 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.

He 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 a board member of the Westminster-Canterbury Foundation, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation, The Valentine Museum, The Library of Virginia Foundation., and a member of St. James’s Episcopal Church.

Memorial services will be held at St. James’s Episcopal Church at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, January 19, following a private burial in Hollywood Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hampden-Sydney College, the Rosewell Foundation, or the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.