Career
By profession Spencer was a cotton merchant and worsted manufacturer and in 1925 he gave evidence to the Board of Trade safeguarding enquiry into the worsted trade. He was sometime secretary to the Bradford and District Manufacturers’ Association and connected to the Association of Chambers of Commerce Spencer also spent some time in Australia engaged in farming and land development.
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