Aubrey George Spencer was born in England in 1795. He came to Newfoundland in 1819 but after a couple years, for health reasons, moved to a parish in Bermuda.
In 1839 Newfoundland and Bermuda were set apart as a separate diocese with Aubrey Spencer as its first bishop. In 1842 there were 27 missionaries and 64 churches in Newfoundland and 9 clergy and 18 churches in Bermuda. Bishop Spencer did visit the northern parts of Newfoundland and Labrador mostly in open boats but his health did not let him continue
In 1843 he became the second Bishop of Jamaica where he worked for 10 years before retiring to England. He died in Torquay, England in 1872.