Spalding & Hodge

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Spalding & Hodge
Company type Privately held company
Industry Stationery
FoundedNovember 23, 1789 (1789-11-23) in The Strand, London
FoundersThomas Spalding and John Hodge
Defunctc. 1950s
FateSold
Headquarters
Drury Lane, London
,
England
ProductsPaper, books
ServicesBook publishing

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. [1] The company remained in business until after the Second World War when it was eventually sold.

Contents

In the nineteenth century the company had the largest share of the British book paper market. [2]

Board members

Spalding & Hodge Board members: [3]

NameBirthDeathComment
Thomas Spalding17621819Founder
John Hodge
Thomas Spalding18051887
Samuel Spalding18081843
John Hodge18121901
Henry Benjamin Spalding18171908
Samuel Spalding18331887
John Howard Spalding18491916Board member c1906
William F Hodge18471904
Walter Spalding18551937Board member c1906, Retired 1937
Sydney Thomas Spalding18581937Chairman
Edward Stanton Spalding18631954Retired 1921
Henry Shirley BluntRetired 1921
Harold BayleyBoard member c1906
Cuthbert Guy Spalding18831966
Sydney Leonard Spalding18861964Board member c1906

References

  1. ↑ "An exterior view of Drury House at 34-43 Russell Street". Historic England. June 10, 1907.
  2. ↑ Weedon, Alexis (2003). Victorian publishing: the economics of book production for a mass market, 1836-1916. Ashgate Publishing. p. 69. ISBN   978-0-7546-3527-7.
  3. ↑ Past and Present 1796-1921. Spalding & Hodge. 1921.

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]

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