Spalding & Hodge

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.

Spalding & Hodge

Company type	Privately held company
Industry	Stationery
Founded	November 23, 1789 (1789-11-23) in The Strand, London
Founders	Thomas Spalding and John Hodge
Defunct	c. 1950s
Fate	Sold
Headquarters	Drury Lane, London , England
Products	Paper, books
Services	Book publishing

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

Board members

Spalding & Hodge Board members:^[3]

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 Shirley Blunt			Retired 1921
Harold Bayley			Board member c1906
Cuthbert Guy Spalding	1883	1966
Sydney Leonard Spalding	1886	1964	Board member c1906