W. J. H. Sprott

Sprott was born on 19 April 1897 at Sillwood Place, Crowborough, Sussex, to Herbert Sprott and his wife, née Mary Elizabeth Williams.

He was invalidated from serving in the military during the First World War and taught in preparatory schools.

He was romantically involved with the economist John Maynard Keynes, who was at the time also seeing the ballerina Lydia Lopokova.

[2][3] After a job as a demonstrator at the Psychological Laboratory in Cambridge, he moved to the University of Nottingham, where he eventually became professor of philosophy.

[4] He died on 2 September 1971 at Langham Road, Blakeney, Norfolk.