John Wodderspoon (1806, Bath, Somerset – 19 November 1862, Norwich[1]) was an English journalist and antiquarian, assistant editor of the Norwich Mercury.
Wodderspoon worked for the Bath Chronicle before moving to work for the Birmingham Journal for a couple of years.
For ten years he was a reporter for the Suffolk Chronicle.
In 1845 he edited the Antiquarian and Architectural Year Book, dedicated to his friend John Britton, with contributions from John Stevens Henslow, Rev.
J. L. Pettit, Mr. T. F. Dukes, Dr. Charlton, Augustus Pugin, Charles Roach Smith and others.