Walter John Herbert Sprott (19 April 1897 – 2 September 1971), known to friends as 'Sebastian' Sprott, and also known as Jack Sprott, was a British psychologist and writer.
Life Sprott was born on 19 April 1897 at Sillwood Place, Crowborough, Sussex, to Herbert Sprott and his wife, née Mary Elizabeth Williams. He was educated at Felsted School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles. He was invalidated from serving in the military during the First World War and taught in preparatory schools. In the 1920s, he became acquainted with other members of the Bloomsbury Group. He was romantically involved with the economist John Maynard Keynes, who was at the time also seeing the ballerina Lydia Lopokova. Sprott's affair with Keynes ended after Keynes married Lopokova.The unlikely Lydia LopokovaThe Telegraph, 25 April 2008, Rupert Christiansen"The firebird of Gordon Square" Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian, 19 April 2008 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.Janus: The Papers of Walter John Herbert Sprott
He died on 2 September 1971 at Langham Road, Blakeney, Norfolk.
Works (tr.) Physique and character; an investigation of the nature of constitution and of the theory of temperament by Ernst Kretschmer, 1925. The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method. (tr.) New introductory lectures on psycho-analysis by Sigmund Freud. New York: W.W. Norton, 1933. General psychology, 1937 Sociology, 1949 Social psychology, 1952 Science and social action, 1954 Human groups, 1958
See also List of Bloomsbury Group people
References
External links Papers of Sprott, Walter John Herbert (1897-1971) psychologist held at King's College, Cambridge