Biographies

Charles Sidney Spooner (1862 – 1938) Born at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington (London), Spooner was the second of five children of Charles Spooner and Sarah Frances Trinder, who lived at Brook Green, Hammersmith. Spooner became an architect and an instructor of furniture design at the London County Council’s Central School of Arts and Crafts. His work was displayed at all the exhibitions of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society from 1890 to 1928, including an exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery in January of 1913. (The mjp would like to thank Alec Hamilton for information about Spooner’s life.)