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[[File:Spence's Hotel Calcutta by Frederick Fiebig 1851.jpg|thumb|right|Spence's Hotel as photographed by [[Frederick Fiebig]] in 1851]]<br />
'''Spence's Hotel''' was a [[hotel]] established in [[Kolkata]] in 1830. It was near the [[Raj Bhavan, Kolkata|Government House]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wright|first1=Colin|title=Spence's Hotel, Calcutta|url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/s/019pho0000247s2u00010000.html|website=[[British Library]]|language=en|date=26 March 2009}}</ref> It no longer exists.<ref>{{cite web|author1=অযান্ত্রিক|title=Spence’s Hotel, Dalhousie Square, 1830|url=https://puronokolkata.com/2013/11/23/spences-hotel-dalhousie-square-1830/|website=puronokolkata|date=23 November 2013}}</ref><br />
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[[File:-Spence's Hotel & St. John's Cathedral, Calcutta- MET DP146091.jpg|thumb|right|Spence's Hotel near [[St. John's Church, Kolkata|St. John's Church]]]]<br />
Various sources describe Spence's Hotel as either the first hotel in Asia, or in India, or in Kolkata.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ghosh|first1=Bishwanath|title=Inside India’s oldest hotel|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/Inside-India%E2%80%99s-oldest-hotel/article14483387.ece|website=[[The Hindu]]|language=en-IN|date=11 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Mukherjee|first1=Ps|title=Heritage structures of Bengal: The Treasury Building & Spence's Hotel: the connection|url=http://heritagestructurewb.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-treasury-building-of-kolkata.html|website=Heritage structures of Bengal|date=10 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Banerjee|first1=Dibyendu|title=LEGEND OF THE LOST – Spence’s Hotel|url=http://noisebreak.com/legend-lost-spences-hotel/|website=Noise Break|date=2 August 2016}}</ref><br />
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The hotel is mentioned in [[Jules Verne]]'s ''[[The Steam House]]'' as a place where the characters stay during a visit to Kolkata.<br />
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On 16 January 1861 [[Duleep Singh]] met his mother [[Jind Kaur]] at the hotel.<ref name="Dalrymple 2017">{{cite book | url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/koh-i-noor-9781408888841/ | title=Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond | publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] | last1=Dalrymple |first1=William | authorlink1=William Dalrymple (historian)|last2=Anand |first2=Anita |authorlink2=Anita Anand | year=2017 | pages=256-258 | isbn=9781635570762}}</ref> They had been separated in 1849 after the [[Treaty of Lahore]] when he was 10 years old and they reunited when he was age 22.<ref name="Dalrymple 2017"/> From here, Singh brought his mother back with him to live in England.<ref name="Dalrymple 2017"/> Because of political tension the British government choose Spence's Hotel as a neutral place where there was unlikely to be conflict.<ref name="Dalrymple 2017"/><br />
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