Albert Spicer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Albert Spicer

British politician

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1847

Place of Birth: Brixton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 20-Dec-1934

Profession: businessperson, politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Albert Spicer

  • Sir Albert Spicer, 1st Baronet PC (16 March 1847 – 20 December 1934) was an English businessman and Liberal Party politician. He was born in Brixton, London, the son of James Spicer D.L.
  • of Alton, Hampshire (4 May 1807 – 23 January 1888), a wealthy paper merchant and a well-known congregationalist, and Louisa Edwards (5 October 1813 – 19 January 1892), daughter of Evan Edwards and Mary Ann Johnson.
  • He was the sixth child in a family of ten, with three brothers and six sisters, he was the second son, after his brother James (great grandfather of the Labour MP Harriet Harman).
  • When James Spicer Senior died in 1888, Albert inherited the paper company James Spicer & Sons (since 1922 ?Spicers Ltd°) with his brother James, transforming it into the largest and most productive paper company in the world.
  • On 6 March 1879, he married Jessie Stewart Dykes, daughter of David Dykes and his wife Janet Buxton.
  • They had eleven children, three boys and eight girls: Albert, Marion, Bertha, Grace, Stewart Dykes, Janet, Lancelot, Gwendoline Elaine, Eva, Olga and Ursula.
  • He was created a Baronet in 1906, and served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Monmouth Boroughs from 1892 to 1900, and for Hackney Central from 1906 to 1918.
  • He was a J.P.
  • for Essex and was appointed as a Privy Councillor in 1912. He died aged 87 on 20 December 1934 in 24 Palace Road, Bayswater, London, and was cremated in Golders Green Crematorium on 21 December 1934.
  • His wife had predeceased him on the twenty-first of that year.
  • His title was inherited by his first son Albert, then, on his death in 1966, Stewart Dykes inherited the title.
  • The paper trade was taken over by his son Lancelot Dykes Spicer (1893–1979), who became a D.S.O..

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