Spencer Wilks

Spencer Bernau Wilks (26 May 189110 March 1971) was an English manager, administrator and designer in the motor manufacturing industry. He served variously in positions including managing director, chairman, and president of the Rover Company from 1929 until the 1960s. Previously he worked for the Hillman Motor Car Company in Coventry. His younger brother Maurice Wilks also worked at Rover as chief engineer, technical director and managing director from 1930. He is one of Land Rover's founders along with his younger brother Maurice.

Early life and education Wilks was born in Rickmansworth, a town of south-west Hertfordshire to Thomas Wilks (born Balham), a Director of Leather Co and his wife Jane Eliza (born St. Sepulchre, London), a Suffragette. He had one sister and four brothers including Maurice.