Herbert Henry Spender-Clay was an English soldier and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1910 to 1937.
Born: 1875
Died: 15 February 1937
Education: Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Eton College
Spender clay was the aristocrat whom the Lord William Nevill was involved in the case that sent him to prison for five years penal servitude. He asked spender clay to sign a document which had been covered, informing him that it was related to his sisters divorce and being a personal document would cause his family shame. It was however a loan for thousands which made spender clay liable if Lord William Nevill defaulted, which of course he did . This leading Sam Lewis to take spender clay to court. Which eventually led to Lord William Nevill himself being sentenced to prison and then writing his book on prison reform
He married the beautiful Pauline Astor a member of the wealthy as the family who went on to buy the elite property next to Buckingham Palace that the Murrieta family owned . The Murrietas were the family that Lord William Beauchamp level married into and the property was where he and his wife Louisa were married in 1897
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