Later Life
Sir Wilfrid retired in 1944 and returned to England in 1955, he died of heart failure on 21 December 1960 at the East Hill Hotel, his home at Liss in Hampshire. He was survived by Lady Spender (died 1966), whom he married in 1913, and their only child, Patricia Daffodil (born Belfast, 17 March 1923; married Richard G. Dingwall on 2 November 1946; killed in a climbing accident in Switzerland).
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