John Roderick Charles Herbert Spottiswoode
John Roderick Charles Herbert Spottiswoode (1882-1946).
1882 Born the eldest son of Captain Charles Herbert and his second wife, Helen, the only child of late Colonel Andrew Spottiswoode.
1900 Succeeded his great aunt, Lady John Montagu-Douglas-Scott-Spottiswoode, and assumed her name.
1906 Married Evelyn Anne Venables, only child of Richard Henry Venables Kyrke, of Natyffrith, Flintshire, and Anne Elizabeth, daughter of Peter walker of Auchenflower.
1909 Captain John Spottiswoode was elected a member of the Royal Aero Club[1]
1910 Mr Spottiswood was manager for Alan Boyle (not convinced this is the same person)
1910 February: The Hon. C. S. Rolls, Capt. J. Spottiswoode, and Mr. Horace Short were the official observers of The Hon. Maurice Egerton's flight at Shellbeach for prizes offered by the Royal Aero Club[2]
1910 J. H. Spottiswoode was one of the contributors to the Rolls Memorial Fund[3]
1913 J. H. Spottiswoode was one of the Royal Aero Club's observers at the competition for the Mortimer Singer prize at Cowes[4]
WWI As he was visiting airfields in Germany when war was declared, J. H. Spottiswoode suffered many months of solitary confinement[5]
1915 Marriage dissolved.
1917 J. H. Spottiswoode was a member of the house committee of the Royal Aero Club[6]
1923 J. H. Spottiswoode was an official at Renfrew, Glasgow for thr King's Cup Air Race[7]