John Spaul

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

Education
Spaul was born in Oakham in Rutland. 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. After some six years of study concurrent to his teaching career, he earned his MLitt (1958) from Durham. His thesis, supervised by Eric Birley, was on the Roman province of Mauretania Tingitana.

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.

Books

 * Spaul, John. Ala2: The Auxiliary Cavalry Units of the Pre-Diocletian Imperial Roman Army. Nectoreca Press, 1994.
 * Spaul, John. Cohors2: The evidence for and a short history of the auxiliary infantry units of the Imperial Roman Army. Archaeopress, 2000.
 * 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), who died in January 2021.