Harold Spender

Edward Harold Spender (22 June 1864 – 15 April 1926) was a British Liberal Party politician, author, journalist and lecturer.

Harold was a friend of David Lloyd George, with whom he went hiking, and travelled to Germany.

He was Liberal candidate for the Bath Division of Somerset at the 1922 General Election.

He married Violet Hilda Schuster (1878–1921), daughter of Ernest Joseph Schuster (1850–1924), barrister, and his wife, Hilda Weber, daughter of Sir Herman Weber,[3] a German-born doctor who became a naturalised British subject.

Harold and Violet's children included the poet Stephen, the explorer Michael, and Humphrey Spender, a photojournalist and artist.