page_title: Herbert Spender-Clay
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Herbert Spender-Clay / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Pauline was the daughter of William Waldorf Astor, who was the son of John Jacob Astor III. Born in 1880, she lived until 1970. Jpg: Kathleen Cohen
context_page_description: Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Spender-Clay, PC CMG was an English soldier and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1910 to 1937.
context_section_description: 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.
  At the age of 29, he married on 29 October 1904, Pauline Astor, who was then 24. She was the elder daughter of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor and Mary Dahlgren Paul. Herbert and Pauline had three daughters:
  Phyllis Mary Spender-Clay was born on 4 October 1905, and married at the age of 27 on 6 February 1932 in Dormansland Sir Philip Bouverie Bowyer Nichols, KCMG MC, then aged 38, who was born on 7 September 1894 and died on 6 December 1962 in London at the age of 68. He was the younger son of John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols of Lawford Hall, Essex, and was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.  He was appointed Ambassador to the Netherlands.  They lived at Lawford Hall, Manningtree Essex, and he was buried at St Mary's, Lawford.  She died 5 January 1972. They had two sons and two daughters.
  Rachel Pauline Spender-Clay was born on 19 January 1907, married at the age of 22 on 6 February 1929 in St James' Piccadilly to 27-year-old Hon. Sir David Bowes-Lyon, the youngest son of 14th Earl of Strathmore, and brother of the Queen Mother; he was born on 2 May 1902, died on 13 September 1961 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire at the age of 59 and was buried at St Paul's, Waldenbury.  He was K.C.V.O., Deputy Lieutenant JP.  She was JP Hertfordshire 1956. They had a son and a daughter.
  Sybil Gwendoline Spender-Clay was born on 25 March 1910 and died on 3 March 1912, 22 days before her 2nd birthday
  They lived at Ford Manor, Lingfield, Surrey and also had a London house at 21 Hill Street.
caption: Pauline Astor, John Singer Sargent, c. 1898
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