Show oh > 1 1 I I I i J ALFRED BPENOCn Th Vw unit loolhfnl Rdllor at rt turnout I n tlii Ppr J Alfred Spender who ha recently been appointed eilltor of the Wentmln Irr laietlc London come of a lame My that II I partly medical and partly literary Ill father and both bin grandfather were ph > alrani Ills molhtr wan a writer popular In Kng land and turned out novels for thirty MM Two of hla uncle Kdwarj lender and William flntindcn founds I Insaew they called the Wcatcrn Morn g New IMward Rpender waa for I IIIanr year one of the most aiicccnful writers for the Uindon letter The preaent editor I of the Westminster U only 13 lie In I an Oifonl man and was graduated In Hath and hallo col i go When ha left the university he went In Hull where he edited the Eastern East-ern Morning Newa from 1880 to 1JJ1 Y The paper wan then the properly of bile ncle Mr Saunders Mr Spender left 11011 lo join tbs afaR of IIio ICcbo When Vllllam Waldorf Astor bought the Pall f 1 loll latiMla Mr Riiender t was engaged > 10 be Militant editor to K T Cook Ile I has done excellent literary work slued ho has been on thn Weitmlntter no 1 J I 1 i 1 tx J A ntKNDKn ably the Ihlllitlno papers on modern fiction He line published n valuable work on old age peniloni and la now J engaged on a hlilory of the ingllih vll ago during Ihe post 100 year |