Walter John Herbert Sprott, known to friends as ‘Sebastian’ Sprott, and also known as Jack Sprott (1897-1971) was a British psychologist and writer.

Sprott was educated at Felsted School

Felsted School

Felsted School, an English co-educational day and boarding independent school, situated in Felsted, Essex. It is in the British Public School tradition, and was founded in 1564 by Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich who, as Lord Chancellor and Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, acquired...

 and Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1326, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens on "the Backs"...

, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles

Cambridge Apostles

The Cambridge Apostles, also known as the Cambridge Conversazione Society, is an intellectual secret society at the University of Cambridge founded in 1820 by George Tomlinson, a Cambridge student who went on to become the first Bishop of Gibraltar....

. In the 1920s, he became acquainted with other members of the Bloomsbury Group

Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group or Bloomsbury Set was a group of writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists who held informal discussions in Bloomsbury throughout the 20th century. This English collective of friends and relatives lived, worked or studied near Bloomsbury in London during the first half...

. After a job as a demonstrator at the Psychological Laboratory in Cambridge, he moved to the University of Nottingham

University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

, where he eventually became professor of philosophy.

Works

• (tr.) Physique and character; an investigation of the nature of constitution and of the theory of temperament by Ernst Kretschmer
  Ernst Kretschmer
  Ernst Kretschmer Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. h.c., was a German psychiatrist who researched the human constitution and established a typology...
  
  , 1925. The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method
  The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method
  The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method was an influential series of monographs published published 1910–1965 under the general editorship of Charles Kay Ogden. This series published some of the landmark works on psychology and philosophy, particularly the thought...
  
  .
• (tr.) New introductory lectures on psycho-analysis by Sigmund Freud
  Sigmund Freud
  Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
  
  . New York: W.W. Norton, 1933.
• General psychology, 1937
• Sociology, 1949
• Social psychology, 1952
• Science and social action, 1954
• Human groups, 1958

External links

• Papers of Sprott, Walter John Herbert (1897-1971) psychologist held at King’s College, Cambridge