Michael Alfred Spender (11 November 1906 – 5 May 1945) was an English explorer, surveyor, a leader in photo interpretation in the Second World War, and an RAFsquadron leader.
In 1933 he married his first wife Erika Haarmann, and their son John-Christopher was born in 1936.[3] In the late 1930s the artist Nancy Sharp (the first wife of William Coldstream and the lover of Louis MacNeice), fell in love with Spender. Michael and Nancy divorced their respective spouses, and they were married in 1943. Their son Philip was born the same year.[4][5]
Spender was regarded as arrogant and tactless,[2] and he had a difficult relationship with his brother, Stephen.
DeathEdit
On 3 May 1945 Michael was a passenger in an Avro Anson, and he was seriously injured when it crashed near Süchteln in Germany; he died on 5 May. Stephen was deeply affected, and he wrote the elegySeascape for his brother.[1]
He was buried at Eindhoven General Cemetery at Woensel in the Netherlands.[6]
ReferencesEdit
^ abJohn Sutherland, Sir Stephen Harold Spender, Oxford Online Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
^ abcThe Royal Geographical Society, Imaging Everest, Michael Spender
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