Of Spottiswoode; the son of John Spottiswoode (d. 1805) and a grandson of William Strahan, he was a county magistrate in Berwickshire.

REFERENCES TO John Spottiswoode:

Sydney Smith to Georgiana Meynell Ingram, November 1822 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)