Thomas Spencer

One of the two co-founders of the retail chain Marks & Spencer

Thomas Spencer (7 November 1851 – 25 July 1905) was an English businessman, known for being the co-founder with Michael Marks of Marks & Spencer, a major British retailer.2

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Born 1852, died Jul 25, 1905.1

Companies

Early life and education

Spencer was born on 7 November 1851 in Skipton, Yorkshire. He moved to Leeds before he was 21 and worked as a book-keeper for a wholesale company started by Isaac Jowitt Dewhirst.

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Career

Occupation: entrepreneur.4

Personal life

  • Born1852, Skipton5
  • DiedJul 25, 1905, Staffordshire6
  • CitizenshipUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland7

Spencer met and married his wife Agnes (née Whitfield) at St Saviour, Cross Green, Leeds, in 1892. She was born in the village of Marton, now a part of Middlesbrough. Together they had a son named Thomas Spencer Jr.

Spencer died on 25 July 1905, in Whittington, Staffordshire. His wife continued to fund charitable work such as the Church of St Agnes in Easterside, Middlesbrough, after his death, and died in 1959, now buried in the graveyard of St Cuthbert's Parish Church in Marton.

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