Herbert Henry Spender-Clay

Herbert Henry Spender-Clay (4 June 1875 — 15 February 1937) was an English soldier and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1910 to 1937.

Spender-Clay was educated at Eton and Sandhurst, and in 1896 was commissioned as an officer of the 2nd Life Guards. He served in the Second Boer War, and resigned his commission in 1902 to take up farming on his father's estate in Surrey, which he inherited.

He was elected at January 1910 general election as the Member of Parliament for the Tunbridge division of Kent. He was re-elected in December 1910, and when the division was abolished in boundary changes for the 1918 general election he was returned as a Coalition Conservative for the new Tonbridge division. He held that seat through a further six general elections until his death.

In April–May 1917 he was a member of the Balfour Mission, intended to promote cooperation between the US and UK during World War I.

He died on 15 February 1937 at his London home on Hyde Park Street (or at his Surrey home; sources differ), from pneumonia following influenza.

Herbert Henry Spender-Clay was born on 4 June 1875, the only son of Joseph Spender-Clay and Sydney Garrett. He was a Godson of Rev John Harden Clay, the son of Herbert's great uncle Rev John Clay.

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