Biography:
John Daziell Sprunt
22/08/1850 –09/03/1938
John Daziell Sprunt
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John Daziell Sprunt was born in 1850 in Glasgow, Scotland. He belonged to the Scottish Presbyterian Church.
He was married to Jane Sprunt 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 (five boys and three girls).
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’.
John Daziell Sprunt died in 1938.
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John Daziell Sprunt was born in 1850 in Glasgow, Scotland. He belonged to the Scottish Presbyterian Church.
He was married to Jane Sprunt 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 (five boys and three girls).
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’.
John Daziell Sprunt died in 1938.
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St Peter’s Church
Berkhamsted War Memorial
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