Hugh Spottiswoode
W. Hugh Spottiswoode, one of the 3 partners of Eyre and Spottiswoode, founder and proprietor of the Sphere and Tatler's.
1864 Born in Bexley[1], first son of William Spottiswoode, one time president of the Royal Society
Educated at Eton and Oxford
1893 Married Miss Sylvia Tomlin at Westminster Abbey
1909 Hugh Spottiswoode attended the reception at which the Daily Mail's prize was presented to M. Bleriot[2]
1912 With Frank McClean, Hugh Spottiswoode was a pioneer of submarine photography; together they took photographs of the wreck of the Oceana at Eastbourne.
1912 W. Hugh Spottiswoode was elected a member of the Royal Aero Club[3]
1912 Hugh Spottiswoode presented 3 drawings to the Royal Aero Club dealing with the flight by F K McClean at Eastbourne and a photograph of the wreck of RMS Oceana[4]
1914 April: Hugh Spottiswoode was connected with The Sphere[5]
1915 Died in Llandrindod Wells[6]
1922 His wife died[7]