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
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

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  1. ^ 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.

2. Spalding & Hodge (1921). Past and Present 1796-1921

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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]