Dr Hinton Spalding

Commercial Role

(Aden) Founding member

1881 - ????

Notes

Hinton Spalding (d. 1900), the grandson of Dr Hinton Spalding of Jamaica and himself born in Jamaica c. 1846, founded the Perim Coal Co. to establish a coaling station on Perim in the Red Sea c. 1881.

Sources

Kenneth J. Panton, Historical Dictionary of the British Empire p. 406