Dora Carrington; Stephen Tomlin; Walter John Herbert ('Sebastian') Sprott; Lytton Strachey, June 1926

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

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and

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, where he became a member of the

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. 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 The Bloomsbury Group—or Bloomsbury Set—was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strac ...

. He was romantically involved with the economist

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, who was at the time also seeing the ballerina

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. Sprott's affair with Keynes ended after Keynes married Lopokova. After a job as a demonstrator at the Psychological Laboratory in Cambridge, he moved to the

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, where he eventually became professor of philosophy.Janus: The Papers of Walter John Herbert Sprott
/ref> 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

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, 1925.

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. * (tr.) ''New introductory lectures on psycho-analysis'' by

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies explained as originatin ...

. New York: W.W. Norton, 1933. * ''General psychology'', 1937 * ''Sociology'', 1949 * ''Social psychology'', 1952 * ''Science and social action'', 1954 * ''Human groups'', 1958

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* Papers o
Sprott, Walter John Herbert (1897-1971) psychologist
held at

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