Biography:
Jane Naismith Sprunt
11/10/1859 –23/12/1946
Jane Naismith Sprunt
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Jane Sprunt, nee Naismith, was born on 11th October 1859 to John Naismith and Jemima Morrison in Tradeston, Glasgow.
She married fellow Glaswegian John Daziell Sprunt (b.1850) and they had eight children (five boys and three girls). All the children were baptised at the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Camden.
They moved to Berkhamsted in 1903 to take advantage of a public school education for all of their eight children.
Joseph was a general merchant in the City of London and was clearly well off, living at ‘Montgomerie’ in Doctors Commons Road. Alexander and Edward both went on to Oxford. Alexander had been nominated Assistant Professor of Natural History at Glasgow University at the age of only 23 just before war broke out.
Three of their five sons were killed in the First World War – Alexander died 17 March 1915, Edward died 16th June 1915, and Gerald died 15 Oct 1919. Gerald was wounded accidentally by a fellow officer and died later on a ship bound to India ‘weary of hospitals and home’.
Jane died in 1946.
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Jane Sprunt, nee Naismith, was born on 11th October 1859 to John Naismith and Jemima Morrison in Tradeston, Glasgow.
She married fellow Glaswegian John Daziell Sprunt (b.1850) and they had eight children (five boys and three girls). All the children were baptised at the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Camden.
They moved to Berkhamsted in 1903 to take advantage of a public school education for all of their eight children.
Joseph was a general merchant in the City of London and was clearly well off, living at ‘Montgomerie’ in Doctors Commons Road. Alexander and Edward both went on to Oxford. Alexander had been nominated Assistant Professor of Natural History at Glasgow University at the age of only 23 just before war broke out.
Three of their five sons were killed in the First World War – Alexander died 17 March 1915, Edward died 16th June 1915, and Gerald died 15 Oct 1919. Gerald was wounded accidentally by a fellow officer and died later on a ship bound to India ‘weary of hospitals and home’.
Jane died in 1946.
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Historical Connections
The following local places of interest are linked to Jane Naismith Sprunt:
St Peter’s Church
Berkhamsted War Memorial
Military graves