Painter and teacher, born in Mousehole, Cornwall, to which he returned to live permanently in 1956. His pictures, usually oil on board, representational but sometimes near-abstract, are mostly concerned with Cornwall’s sea and ships. Pender began painting in 1936, then studied at Penzance School of Art, 1938–9. He was in the Army, 1939–46, from 1945–6 attending Athens School of Art; then had three years at Exeter School of Art under Clifford Fishwick and John Skeaping; and gained his teaching diploma with a year, 1949–50, at Bristol’s West of England College of Art. Taught at Plymouth Art School, 1950–4, and Royal Naval College, 1954–6. Pender showed with the Penwith and Newlyn Societies from late 1940s. His other group show appearances including New Art Centre and Chenil Gallery.