13 Facts About Michael Spicer

Michael Spicer served as Member of Parliament for West Worcestershire from 1974 to 2010 and was a minister from 1984 to 1990.

Michael Spicer later served as chairman of the 1922 Committee from 2001 to 2010.

Michael Spicer was Director of Conservative Systems Research Centre from 1968 to 1970, and managing director of Economic Models Ltd from 1970 to 1980.

Michael Spicer joined the Conservative Party, and at the 1966 general election, he challenged Manny Shinwell in the safe Labour Easington constituency as the youngest parliamentary candidate in the country against the eldest.

Michael Spicer stood in Easington again at the 1970 general election before he was elected at the February 1974 general election for South Worcestershire.

Michael Spicer was later made a Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party.

Michael Spicer became a Parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department of Transport in 1984 and served until 1987 with specific responsibility for aviation.

Michael Spicer was an author and had a number of books published, including The Spicer Diaries.

Michael Spicer's majority declined in 1997 in keeping with the general trend across the country, but he kept his seat which had become West Worcestershire after boundary changes that year.

On 26 March 2006, Michael Spicer announced that he would not contest the Worcestershire West seat at the 2010 election and that he would retire as an MP.

Michael Spicer was created a life peer on 8 July 2010 as Baron Spicer, of Cropthorne in the County of Worcestershire.

Michael Spicer was sworn of the Privy Council on 15 May 2013 at Buckingham Palace; he thus acquired the post-nominal letters "PC" for life.

Michael Spicer died at the Cromwell Hospital in Kensington, London, from complications of Parkinson's disease and leukaemia on 29 May 2019.