Philip Spender (born 1943) is a prominent public-sector fundraiser who has worked with

Index on Censorship Index on Censorship is an organisation campaigning for freedom of expression. It produces a quarterly magazine of the same name from London. It is directed by the non-profit-making Writers and Scholars International, Ltd (WSI) in association wit ...

, the Writers and Scholars Educational Trust, and OneWorld Online. He is the son of the painter

Nancy Spender Nancy Culliford Spender (née Sharp, formerly Coldstream; 29 October 1909 – 20 June 2001) was a British painter, described on her death as "much underrated". Biography Nancy Sharp was born on 29 October 1909 in Truro, Cornwall, the daughte ...

and the explorer Michael Spender, a nephew of the poet

Stephen Spender Sir Stephen Harold Spender (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry ...

, and a trustee of the Stephen Spender Memorial Trust. He was the dedicatee of

W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, ...

's poem ''Epistle to a Godson'' (1969).

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