Diana Violet Constance Edith Spearman (22 February 1905 – 31 May 1991) was a British writer and conservative activist.
She was born in India to Sir Arthur Havelock James Doyle, Bt and Joyce Ethelreda Howard, who was a granddaughter of the 4th Marquess of Townshend[1] and the 17th Earl of Suffolk.
[2] She studied at the London School of Economics from 1925 to 1931, where she was awarded the Social Science Certificate with distinction (1927) and the Academic Diploma in Psychology (1931).
[1] She contested Kingston upon Hull Central in the 1945 general election but lost to Labour's Mark Hewitson.
[5] In 1948, Spearman accepted Friedrich Hayek's invitation to join the Mont Pelerin Society and she was also an active member of the Institute of Economic Affairs.