John Sparrow

John Hanbury Angus Sparrow OBE (13 November 1906 – 24 January 1992) was an English academic, barrister, book-collector, and Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1952 to 1977. Early life and education Sparrow was born on 13 November 1906 at New Oxley, Bushbury, near Wolverhampton, the eldest of five children born to Isaac Saredon Sparrow, a barrister who had inherited wealth through the family business as prominent Midland ironmasters, and Margaret, née Macgregor. Sparrow briefly attended the junior house of Wolverhampton Grammar School, but was soon moved to Brockhurst at Church Stretton in Shropshire as a boarder. Not long after, in September 1916, when he was nearly ten, he was sent to a preparatory school called The Old Hall at Wellington in Shropshire. His formal education followed at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. Career