Henry Spence
Appearance
Henry Reginald Spence OBE (22 June 1897 – 11 September 1981) was a Scottish Unionist politician.
Spence was commissioned in the Royal Flying Corps in 1915; with No. 16 Squadron in 1916-17 and with 12 Wing RAF in 1918 (under Ginger Mitchell). He was later Area Commandant of the Air Training Corps for North-East Scotland.
He was British Cross Country Ski Champion, Mürren in 1929. He worked in textile manufacturing and industry and was managing partner of a firm and director of four others.
Spence was Unionist Member of Parliament for Aberdeen and Kincardine Central from 1945 to 1950 and for West Aberdeenshire from 1950 to 1959.[1]
He died in Kensington and Chelsea, aged 84.
References
[edit]- ^ "Major Henry Spence". Parliament of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
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Categories:
- 1897 births
- 1981 deaths
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
- Royal Air Force officers
- Royal Flying Corps officers
- Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs
- UK MPs 1945–1950
- UK MPs 1950–1951
- UK MPs 1951–1955
- UK MPs 1955–1959
- Scottish Conservative and Unionist MP stubs
- Conservative MP (UK), 1890s birth stubs