Spalding & Hodge was a London based manufacturing stationer and paper merchant founded on 23 November 1789 by Thomas Spalding and John Hodge. Initially operating from The Strand they moved to Drury Lane in 1797. In 1904 they moved to new purpose built premises at Drury House in Russell Street. The company remained in business until after the Second World War when it was eventually sold.
In the nineteenth century the company had the largest share of the British book paper market.[1]
Board members:[2]
Name
|
Birth
|
Death
|
Comment
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Thomas Spalding
|
1762
|
1819
|
Founder
|
John Hodge
|
|
|
|
Thomas Spalding
|
1805
|
1887
|
|
Samuel Spalding
|
1808
|
1843
|
|
John Hodge
|
1812
|
1901
|
|
Henry Benjamin Spalding
|
1817
|
1908
|
|
Samuel Spalding
|
1833
|
1887
|
|
John Howard Spalding
|
1849
|
1916
|
Board member c1906
|
William F Hodge
|
1847
|
1904
|
|
Walter Spalding
|
1855
|
1937
|
Board member c1906, Retired 1937
|
Sydney Thomas Spalding
|
1858
|
1937
|
Chairman
|
Edward Stanton Spalding
|
1863
|
1954
|
Retired 1921
|
Henry Shirely Blunt
|
|
|
Retired 1921
|
Harold Bayley
|
|
|
Board member c1906
|
Cuthbert Guy Spalding
|
1883
|
1966
|
|
Sydney Leonard Spalding
|
1886
|
1964
|
Board member c1906
|
References
2. Spalding & Hodge (1921). Past and Present 1796-1921
External links
A substantial quantity of papers of this company are held by the London Metropolitan Archive: [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/a640745c-312b-406d-a71d-9c59e17e1c1b]