Sir Pierce Thomas Lacy, 1st Baronet, (16 February 1872 – 25 December 1956) was an

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Early life and education

Lacy was born in

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, the second of five sons (there were four daughters also) of

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-born John Pierce Lacy (1839-1906) of Oakmount, Edgbaston, and his second wife, Mary, née Conick (died 1914). John Pierce Lacy was chairman of Docker Brothers Ltd and a former partner in a galvanisers and iron merchants business, who bought controlling interests in the

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ammunition makers and

Brown, Marshalls and Co. Ltd. Brown, Marshalls and Co. Ltd. was a company that built railway carriages, based in Saltley, Birmingham, England. It was formed in 1840. In 1866 it built the original batch of four-wheel coaches for the Talyllyn Railway, which are still in oper ...

, manufacturers of railway carriages, and made a success of both. Lacy's grandfather, James Lacy, was of Garryrichard House,

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, Ireland. Lacy was educated at

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Career

Lacy practised as a stockbroker in Birmingham, becoming a partner in Cutler & Lacy and chairman of the

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. He founded and chaired the British Trusts Association in 1917 and the British Shareholders Trust in 1921. He was created a

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in the

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for his contributions to finance and appointed

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for 1927/28. He lived at that time at

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Personal life

In 1898, Lacy married Ethel Maud, daughter of James Finucane Draper, of

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. They had one son, Maurice John Pierce Lacy (2 April 1900–22 April 1965), who succeeded as 2nd Baronet, and five surviving daughters, with another having died aged only one day.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th ed., vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 2221

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*Obituary, ''

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'', 27 December 1956

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