Andrew Spottiswoode
Andrew Spottiswoode (19 February 1787 – 20 February 1866) was a Scottish printer, publisher and politician, MP for Saltash from 1826 to 1830, and Colchester from 1830 to 1831.[1]
Life
He was the fourth son of John Spottiswoode (died 1805) of Spottiswoode, Berwick and Margaret Penelope Strahan, daughter of
Spottiswoode lived at 9 Bedford Square, London and Broome Hall, Surrey.[1]
A. and R. Spottiswoode
In 1819 Andrew and his brother Robert assumed the management of the printing business of their uncle Andrew Strahan. They brought in steam-powered printing presses. They were also publishers, of works by Henry Fuseli and William Henry Pyne among others, including Anna Eliza Bray's memoir of her husband Charles Alfred Stothard.[2][3]
King's Printer
In 1830, Strahan was granted a renewed 30-year patent as King's Printer.[4] It resulted in a successful petition against Spottiswoode's election in Colchester, on the grounds that he was a government contractor.[5] The monopoly it conferred was also contested by Joseph Hume, a Radical colleague of Daniel Whittle Harvey to whom Spottiswoode had come second in Colchester (which elected two members). Hume made allegations about the patent, beginning a period in which the status of the monopoly was brought into play.[1]
Spottiswoode gave evidence on Bible printing costs to a parliamentary committee in 1832, as did
Family
Spottiswoode married Mary (1801–1870), daughter of Thomas Norton Longman, the printer; they had two sons and three daughters.[1][9] One of the sons was the mathematician and physicist William Spottiswoode.[10]
References
- ^ a b c d e "SPOTTISWOODE, Andrew (1787-1866), of 9 Bedford Square, Mdx. and Broome Hall, Dorking, Surr. - History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ^ "Spottiswoode and Co - Graces Guide". www.gracesguide.co.uk.
- ^ "A. and R. Spottiswoode (London), Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk.
- ^ Eyre and Spottiswoode, gracesguide.co.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
- ^ "Colchester 1820–1832, History of Parliament Online". www.histparl.ac.uk.
- ISBN 978-0-521-52212-0.
- ^ Curtis, Thomas (1833). The Existing Monopoly, an Inadequate Protection of the Authorised Version of Scripture. Four Letters to the Right Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London; with Specimens of the International, and Other Departures from the Authorised Standard. To which is Added, a Postscript, Containing the "complaints" of a London Committee of Ministers on the Subject; the Reply of the Universities; and a Report on the Importance of the Alterations Made. Effingham Wilson.
- ISBN 978-0-19-955759-2.
- ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8.
- ^ "Spottiswoode biography". www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 August 2018.