May Nunez

William "May" Loring Spencer (née Nunez; October 1, 1847 – May 13, 1921) was an American author and stage actress.

Her mother, who was esteemed a beauty, was the sister of general William Wing Loring, of the Khedive's army.

[2] In his youth Albert Nunez had been in California the law partner of Gregory Yale, but soon after May's birth he moved the family to Baltimore, Maryland, in which city May and her sister lived as children.

He desired that they should continue their studies of music and the languages, and stood towards them, the only children of his only sister, as guardian and protector.

General Loring being detained in Egypt by state affairs, they were in Italy a year before he joined them and took them on a tour through the country, and obtained for them a private audience with the Pope at Rome.

[3] After many months, General Loring was recalled to Egypt, leaving his nieces in Milan to continue their studies, and expecting them to winter at his palace in Alexandria.

[3] When the Murray Hill Dramatic Association, to which May belonged, cast her for Lady Gay Spanker, and she played Desdemona to a lawyer's Othello, Augustin Daly offered her a position in his theatre company, which she accepted.

[4] They fell in love, and in 1877 she became his second wife: they were married early one morning in a Roman Catholic chapel on 14th Street, New York City.