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John Roderick Charles Herbert Spottiswoode

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1910. C. Lane, C. Graham Gilmour, Claude Grahame-White, H. J. D. Astley, Spottiswood, James Radley, L. D. L. Gibbs and Alan Boyle.

NB These entries may refer to more than one person of similar name


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]

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]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Flight JULY 10, 1909
  2. ↑ Flight Feb 19, 1910
  3. ↑ Flight OCT 1, 1910.
  4. ↑ Flight JULY 12, 1913
  5. ↑ FLIGHT, NOVEMBER 19, 1929
  6. ↑ Flight MARCH 29, 1917
  7. ↑ Flight JULY 26, 1923
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