Thomas Alfred Spencer

Spencer was born in Barraba, New South Wales, to Charles Spencer, a clergyman and rector of Roma, and his wife, Susan (née Dowling). He studied at Roma State School and also received private tuition. He was the partial-owner of Redford, Dalmally, Foyle View, and Morocco South stations.^[1]

In 1898, he married Lily McPherson Gordon (died 1957) in Sydney, with whom he had two sons and one daughter.^[1] Spencer died in Sydney in June 1937 in an automobile accident several days earlier.^[2] His funeral proceeded from St Mark's Church of England, Darling Point, to the Rookwood Cemetery.^[3]

Spencer represented the seat of Maranoa in the Queensland Legislative Assembly on two separate occasions. The first was from the 1904 state election, where, as a member of the Ministerialists, he defeated his Labour opponent.^[4] He was defeated three years later in 1907 by John Hunter.

The second time he held the seat of Maranoa was at the by-election in 1919 to replace the previous member, John Hunter, who had resigned from the seat to take up the role of agent-general for Queensland in England.^[5] He was once again defeated, this time by Labor's Charles Conroy at the state election held less than a year later.^[6]