Andrew Spottiswoode

The family descended from John Spottiswoode (1565–1639), archbishop of St. Andrews and lord chancellor of Scotland.

[5] The monopoly it conferred was also contested by Joseph Hume, a Radical colleague of Daniel Whittle Harvey to whom Spottiswoode had come second in Colchester (which elected two members).

Hume made allegations about the patent, beginning a period in which the status of the monopoly was brought into play.

[1] Spottiswoode gave evidence on Bible printing costs to a parliamentary committee in 1832, as did David Hunter Blair who had the Scottish patent as King's Printer.

[6] A criticism of him by the Baptist minister Thomas Curtis, due to allegations of inaccurate printing, was published in 1833.