Harold Warrender

Harold John Warrender was a British stage, film and television actor, and radio presenter.
His father was Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet. His mother was Lady Ethel Maud Ashley Cooper, a singer and patron of music, and personal friend of the composer Edward Elgar and his wife Caroline Alice Roberts.
Warrender became well-known in the 1940s for his part in the popular radio variety show 'Merry-Go-Round' in which he conducted a cash quiz called 'Double or Quits.' The show started as a Forces entertainment which after the war continued in the BBC Light Programme.

Family

In 1942 Warrender married Constance Elizabeth Fowles, daughter of John Fowles vicar of Rye, East Sussex. They had no children.
He died suddenly at his home at (Jerrard'& Cross, on May 6, following a collapse after mowing his lawn. He was 49.