Background
He was the eldest son of Harold Spender and Violet, and a brother of the poet Stephen Spender and the artist Humphrey Spender.
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Michael Spender
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He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford University with a Double First in Engineering, and then worked as a surveyor on the Great Barrier Reef from 1928 to 1929 and in East Greenland in 1932 and 1933.
Career
In 1935 he joined an expedition to the Himalayas and mapped 26 peaks over 26,000 feet. In the late 1930s the artist Nancy Sharp, the wife of William Coldstream and the lover of Louis MacNeice, fell in love with Spender. Their son Philip was born the same year.
He was buried at Eindhoven General Cemetery at Woensel in the Netherlands.
