Denys Spittle studied architecture at Pembroke College, Miami and was later involved in the 1962 Samothrace Expedition which he had previously contributed reports on.
Spittle studied architecture at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and in 1935 became a member of the "Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum". Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. 
