Evan Spicer

Sir Evan Spicer DL JP (20 April 1849 – 22 December 1937) was a British Liberal and London Progressive politician who served for 30 years on the London County Council.

Background

Spicer was the son of James Spicer. He was educated at Mill Hill School. In 1873 he married Annie Whitley. They had four sons and two daughters. He was knighted in 1917.^[1]

Political career

Evan Spicer (c. 1906)

Vanity Fair caricature of Spicer (1912)

Spicer was a Progressive Party member of the London County Council from its inception in 1889 until his retirement in 1919. In 1889 he was one of the inaugural Aldermanic appointments. He served three consecutive terms as an Alderman, covering 1889–1907. In 1907, he was elected to the LCC as a Councillor representing Newington West. He served three consecutive terms as a Councillor, covering 1907–1919. On the LCC he was Chairman of Finance from 1892 to 1895. He served as Vice-Chairman of the LCC from 1906 to 1906 and chairman from 1906 to 1907.^[1] Despite being assured of an Aldermanic seat, he also chose to run as a Progressive candidate at the LCC elections; In the 1901 London County Council election he ran in the heavily Conservative constituency of the City of London.^[2]

Spicer was Liberal candidate for the Dulwich division at the December 1910 General Election.^[3]

He was knighted in the 1916 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.^[4]

Electoral record

1901 London County Council election: City of London^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Conservative	Frederick Prat Alliston	3,325	18.8	−2.2
Conservative	Henry Clarke	3,290	18.6	−2.0
Conservative	Alfred Louis Cohen	3,251	18.4	−2.1
Conservative	Herbert Stuart Sankey	3,138	17.8	−2.8
Progressive	Lord Welby	2,341	13.2	+4.6
Progressive	Evan Spicer	2,327	13.2	+4.7
Conservative hold		Swing	-3.5

1910 London County Council election: Newington West^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	James Daniel Gilbert	3,540
	Progressive	Evan Spicer	3,536
	Municipal Reform	Frank Henry Baber	2,483
	Municipal Reform	Richard Owen Roberts	2,470
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing

1913 London County Council election: Newington West^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	James Daniel Gilbert	3,161
	Progressive	Evan Spicer	3,097
	Municipal Reform	Edgar Abbott	2,268
	Municipal Reform	Richard Owen Roberts	2,222
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing

References

^ ^a ^b ‘SPICER, Sir Evan’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 Jan 2017
^ ^a ^b "The London County Council Election." Times [London, England] 5 March 1901: 12. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 22 September 2016.
^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1973, FWS Craig
^ "Five New Peers. List of Resignation Honours". The Times. 22 December 1916. p. 8.
^ "London County Council Election." Times [London, England] 7 March 1910: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 1 May 2016.
^ London Municipal Notes, 1913

Political offices
Preceded by Ralph Lingen	Chairman of the Finance Committee of London County Council 1892–1895	Succeeded by

[ukwhoswho.com-1] ‘SPICER, Sir Evan’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 Jan 2017

[ReferenceB-2] "The London County Council Election." Times [London, England] 5 March 1901: 12. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 22 September 2016.

[3] British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1973, FWS Craig

[4] "Five New Peers. List of Resignation Honours". The Times. 22 December 1916. p. 8.

[5] "London County Council Election." Times [London, England] 7 March 1910: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 1 May 2016.

[6] London Municipal Notes, 1913

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