Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Robert Spottiswoode

From Graces Guide

1791 Born in London, son of John Spottiswoode and his wife Margaret Penelope[1] (nee Strahan)

1819 Andrew and Robert (nephews of Andrew Strahan) took on the printing business of Andrew Strahan, which later became Spottiswoode and Co

1831 Inherited Andrew Strahan's patent as king’s printer and his share in the stock and materials of that business.

1832 Died suddenly, aged 40, at Carlisle in September 1832. Left £5,000 to his brother Andrew, who remained in sole charge of the private firm of Spottiswoode and Co for the next 16 years, as well as continuing to operate as king’s printer with Eyre and Spottiswoode.


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Sources of Information

  1. BMD
  • [1] History of Parliament