[3] After education at Uppingham School from 1873 to 1878, he matriculated on 1 October 1878 at Caius College, Cambridge, graduating there BA in 1882.
After medical training at St George's Hospital he qualified MRCS in 1886[2] and graduated MB BChir from the University of Cambridge in 1887.
Dr Thomas Wakley, junior, the grandson of the founder of the paper, died in 1909, and Sprigge then became editor, a position he held with distinction until his death in 1937.
[5] At the Savile Club he associated particularly with Edmund Gosse and William Hunt, the historian, and was on dining terms with the leaders of the "æsthetic" literary movement.
He treasured also the friendship of Anthony Hope Hawkins and Rudyard Kipling, and, a few years later, that of Max Beerbohm, William Rothenstein, and ... Robert Ross.