Lancelot Spicer

Lancelot Dykes Spicer DSO, MC and Bar, (22 March 1893 – 6 December 1979), was a British Liberal Party politician.

[1] In the First World War he was granted temporary commission in the Army in September 1914.

He served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry,[2] was awarded the Military Cross in October 1917, bar to Military Cross in May 1918 and was made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in September 1918.

[citation needed] He was a director of the family paper-manufacturing business Spicers Ltd, serving as chairman from 1950 to 1959.

[3] In 1943 he was selected as Liberal prospective parliamentary candidate for the Walthamstow West Division of Essex and at the 1945 General Election finished second.