Later Life
In retirement Spotswood became Deputy Chairman of Rolls-Royce, a Director of Dowty Group and then a Director of Smiths Industries. He also became Chairman of the Trustees of the RAF Museum and of the Royal Star and Garter Home. He died of cancer at Thamesfield Care Home in Henley-on-Thames on 11 November 2001.
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