Background
SPOTTISWOODE, William Hugh was born on July 12, 1864 in 41 Grosvenor Place, South-west Son of late William Spottiswoode, President of the Royal Society, buried in Westminster Abbey.
SPOTTISWOODE, William Hugh was born on July 12, 1864 in 41 Grosvenor Place, South-west Son of late William Spottiswoode, President of the Royal Society, buried in Westminster Abbey.
Eton; Balliol College, Oxford. Presented the Royal Institution with his late father’s collection of Physical Apparatus in 1899, and later gave the London Mathematical Society the late William Spottiswoode’s Mathematical Manuscripts, etc.
President of the Anniversary Festival in 1903 of the Printers’ Pension Corporation. Chairman of Board of the Sphere, and Tafler, Ltd. Proprietor and Editor of Printer’s Pie.
Director of Messrs. John Broad wood and Sons, Ltd. A Director of the Royal Academy of Music. A Manager of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Partner in firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode since 1885.
Clubs: Athenamm, Garrick.