Henry Spalding

• Birth date            4 September 1838 
• Marriage (I)         July-Sept 1864 to Sarah Marianne Sloper at St. Giles, London
• Marriage (II)        April-June 1869 to Maria Louisa Hatch at Kensington
• Death date         25 June 1910 at 38 Belsize Avenue, Hampstead
• Funeral               Wednesday 29 June 1910 at Lyndhurst Road Church, Hampstead

Henry Spalding was born at St John’s Wood in 1838, the youngest son of Samuel Spalding (1807-1843) and his wife Eliza Blunt whom he married on 7 December 1832. Henry’s grandfather, Thomas Spalding, had founded the firm of Spalding and Hodge, wholesale stationers, in Drury Lane in 1789 with a capital of £1,800. The company expanded greatly during the nineteenth century and continued into the 1960s.

Henry Spalding was articled to William Gilbee Habershon and Edward Habershon from 1857 to 1863 and was taken into partnership by Edward Habershon after the family partnership was dissolved. about the same year. In 1865 they made their managing clerk Edgar Philip Loftus Brock a partner. However, about 1866 Henry moved to Brathay, near Ambleside, probably as a result of concerns over his pregnant wife’s health. Their first child was born at Brathay and christened in They were still in Brathay in 1869 when his wife died

Henry was back in London by the spring of 1869.