OBITUARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21990, 22 December 1934, Page 11

OBITUARY

SIR ALBERT SPICER FOUNDER OF A COLLEGE (Received December 21, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 20 The death is announced of Sir Albert Spicer, aged 87. The late Sir Albert Spicer was a London paper merchant and a leading member of the Congregational Church, He was part founder of Mansfield College, Oxford. He was born at" Brixton, London, in March, 1847, and educated at Mill Hill School and Heidelberg. On his retux-n to England from Germany he went into his father's paper business in London. He took an interest in Woodford Green Congregational Church, Essex, and thus began varied activities in Church, State and business. In 1873 Sir Albert became a director, and later treasurer, of the London Missionary Society. Ho then joined in a movement for the setting up of a college at Oxford for post-graduates who wore studying for the Congregational ministry, and by 1888 ho and others had brought Mansfield College into existence. He was its first treasurer and also a trustee and a member of the council. Of all his varied public work this achievement gave hirn the greatest satisfaction. In 1892 Sir Albert entered Parliament as Liberal member for Monmouth Boroughs, and in the following year became the first lay chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales. Giving up his seat in Parliament in 1900, he was out of the House until 1906, when he received a baronetcy and was elected for Central Hackney, retaining that seat until 1918. In the meanwhile he had been president of the Sunday School Union, of the London Chamber of Commerce (1907-10), and of the Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire at Sydney in 1909, and a member of the Advisory Committee to the Army Council or\ the Spiritual and Moral Welfare of the Army (1907-14). He was made a Privy Councillor in 1912. He wrote a number of pamphlets on social questions. The heir, to the baronetcy is Mr. Albert D. Spicer, born in 1880.

MONSIGNOR MOYNAGH SYDNEY'S OLDEST* PRIEST SYDNEY. Dec. 21 The death has occurred of Monsignor J. P. Mo.vnagh, aged 81, the oldest priest by ord[nation i*i the archdiocese of Sydney. He was ordained in 1882.