Albert Spicer

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Sir Albert Spicer, 1st Baronet (1847-1934) was born on the sixteenth of March 1847 in Brixton, London, the son of James Spicer D.L. of Alton, Hampshire(04 May 1807- 23 January 1888), a wealthy paper mechant and a well-known congregationist, 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 twelve, with three brothers and six sisters, he was the second son, after his brother James. When James Spicer Senior died in 1888, Albert inherited the paper company, and tramsformed it into the largest and most productive in the world. On the sixth of March 1879, he married Jessie Stewart Dykes, daugher 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 a politician as M.P. for Monmouth and Hackney, J.P. for Essex and a Privy Councillor. He died on the 20th of December 1934 in 24 Palace road, Bayswater, London, and was cremated in Golders Green Crematorium on the 21st of 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, who became a D.S.O.