John Spicer (Australian Politician)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir John Armstrong Spicer (5 March 1899 - 3 January 1978) was an Australian lawyer, politician, cabinet minister and judge. Spicer was born in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran, but was taken to England by his family in 1905 and educated at Chelston School, Torquay. His family returned to Australia in 1911 and he attended Hawksburn State School in the inner Melbourne suburb of South Yarra. In 1913, he started working as an officer boy in a legal practice. He studied law at the University of Melbourne from 1916 to 1918, and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in March 1921, later establishing a successful practice. He married Lavinia May Webster in June 1924.