b: 26 December (“Boxing Day”) 1918, Southampton, Hants
(2nd son of: Frederick Spencer & Ethel Ellen Spencer (nee Bustin)

d.: 28 March 2000, Leeds (Age 81)
occ: Managing Director,
John Ratcliff & Sons, Ltd.,Armley, Leeds
(recipient: Queens Award for Industry, 1976)
 

(He sang in the car and loved to recite from Shakespeare, the Bible  

& the poets. An avid reader, with a particular fondness for

biographies of the stars of Hollywood’s golden era. He enjoyed horse

and dog racing, good food & drink. He was a self-made man with 

a dynamic personality -- his father died when he was a child

and he left school at 13. He had a wealth of sayings/expressions

that live on and carry his memory: “Let it be soon”; “Put that in

your sky”; “Mark my card”; “Last him a lifetime”; ‘Set out your

stall”; “First is first, second is nowhere”; “Let’s keep the party

clean” ... “It’s not a bad life”. )

Full-Siblings:
* James Charles (b. 14 May 1916, Hampshire)
* Eric Evelyn (b. 27 March 1921, Southampton)
* Kenneth (b. 19 May 1924, Leeds)

Half-Siblings:
(Children of : Frederick Spencer & his first wife,
Sophia Spencer (nee Wilson)
* Charles (b. 1894, Ossett, W/Yks)
* Frederick Page (b. 1896, Dewsbury, W/Yks)
* John Albert (b. 1898, Sculcoates, Hull, E/Yrks)
* Lucy Ann (b.1899, Mexborough, S/Yks)
* Thomas (b. 1901, Manchester, Lancs)
* Eileen (b. 1905, Portsmouth)

m: 24 April 1943, Leeds Registry Office

Sp: Barbara Joan Patricia WILLIAMS

Children:
* Shaun Michael Spencer
* Shelagh Margaret Spencer
* Stephen Robert Spencer