Andrew Spottiswood

Andrew Spottiswoode (19 February 1787 – 20 February 1866) was a Scottish printer, publisher and politician, MP for from 1826 to 1830, and from 1830 to 1831. Life He was the fourth son of John Spottiswoode (died 1805) of Spottiswoode, Berwick and Margaret Penelope Strahan, daughter of William Strahan. He was educated at Edinburgh High School. The family descended from John Spottiswoode (1565–1639), archbishop of St. Andrews and lord chancellor of Scotland. Spottiswoode lived at 9 Bedford Square, London and Broome Hall, Surrey. A. and R. Spottiswoode In 1819 Andrew and his brother Robert took over the running of the printing business of their uncle Andrew Strahan. They brought in steam-powered printing presses. They were also publishers, of works by Henry Fuseli and William Henry Pyne among others, including Anna Eliza Bray's memoir of her husband Charles Alfred Stothard.