Biography:
Albert Hugh Sprigge
1870 –1931
Albert Hugh Sprigge
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Unmarked plot Albert Hugh Sprigge (1870-1931)
Albert was born in 1870 in St Neots, Hunts, to Sarah Elizabeth (née Austen) and Henry Sprigge. His father was a dentist and chemist and Albert was their fourth child – all were boys. The family were prosperous enough to employ a live-in maid and nurse and Henry had an apprentice.
However, Henry died when Albert was only 4.
His brothers Frank and Arthur emigrated to Australia where Arthur died in 1890 and Frank in 1892.
The 1891 census records Albert as an outfitter’s assistant living as a boarder in Swindon.
By 1901 he had taken established an outfitter’s shop at 125, High Street (now 151), a corner shop, and was living there with his mother. They employed a live-in domestic servant
Albert married Edith Gravestock in 1908 and son Austen George was born in 1909.
In 1911 he was recorded as “Outfitter and employer” at 125, High Street “Clothier, hatter, hosier. Juvenile outfitter”. His mother lived with them for the rest of her life.
The Berkhamsted Review (Jan 1967) reported that “a private Aylesbury firm started a service between Berkhamsted and Aylesbury, using a midget bus which carried about 14 passengers. This service began two or three years after the 1914-18 War, and such was the novelty that Mr. A.H. Sprigge, then owner of the outfitter's shop at the corner of Prince Edward Street, included the words 'Where the bus turns round' in his advertisements.”
Eileen M was born in 1914. His mother, Sarah, died at 125 on 14 January 1916 and is buried in this cemetery.
Albert died at 164, Canterbury Road, Pinner in November 1931, aged 61.
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Unmarked plot Albert Hugh Sprigge (1870-1931)
Albert was born in 1870 in St Neots, Hunts, to Sarah Elizabeth (née Austen) and Henry Sprigge. His father was a dentist and chemist and Albert was their fourth child – all were boys. The family were prosperous enough to employ a live-in maid and nurse and Henry had an apprentice.
However, Henry died when Albert was only 4.
His brothers Frank and Arthur emigrated to Australia where Arthur died in 1890 and Frank in 1892.
The 1891 census records Albert as an outfitter’s assistant living as a boarder in Swindon.
By 1901 he had taken established an outfitter’s shop at 125, High Street (now 151), a corner shop, and was living there with his mother. They employed a live-in domestic servant
Albert married Edith Gravestock in 1908 and son Austen George was born in 1909.
In 1911 he was recorded as “Outfitter and employer” at 125, High Street “Clothier, hatter, hosier. Juvenile outfitter”. His mother lived with them for the rest of her life.
The Berkhamsted Review (Jan 1967) reported that “a private Aylesbury firm started a service between Berkhamsted and Aylesbury, using a midget bus which carried about 14 passengers. This service began two or three years after the 1914-18 War, and such was the novelty that Mr. A.H. Sprigge, then owner of the outfitter’s shop at the corner of Prince Edward Street, included the words ‘Where the bus turns round’ in his advertisements.”
Eileen M was born in 1914. His mother, Sarah, died at 125 on 14 January 1916 and is buried in this cemetery.
Albert died at 164, Canterbury Road, Pinner in November 1931, aged 61.
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