Philip Spender
Encyclopedia
Philip Spender is a prominent public-sector fundraiser who has worked with Index on Censorship
, the Writers and Scholars Educational Trust, and OneWorld Online. He is a trustee of the Stephen Spender Memorial Trust, and the son of the painter Nancy Spender
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He was the dedicatee of W. H. Auden
's book Epistle to a Godson (1972).
Index on Censorship
Index on Censorship is a campaigning publishing organisation for freedom of expression, which produces an award-winning quarterly magazine of the same name from London. The present chief executive of Index on Censorship, since 2008, is the author, broadcaster and commentator John Kampfner, former...
, the Writers and Scholars Educational Trust, and OneWorld Online. He is a trustee of the Stephen Spender Memorial Trust, and the son of the painter Nancy Spender
Nancy Spender
Nancy Spender was an English painter.Born Nancy Sharp in Truro, she attended the Slade School of Art, where she met her first husband, William Coldstream, with whom she had two daughters. In the late 1930s she had an affair with Louis MacNeice, illustrating two of his books and partially...
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He was the dedicatee of W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
's book Epistle to a Godson (1972).