Sprittles, George

George Sprittles was born in 1893 at Wakefield. He was called up in 1916 and was stationed at the 2nd Northern General Hospital (based in the newly built City of Leeds Training College at Beckett Park) he left Beckett Park in 1919 having made the rank of sergeant. He was later ordained a Deacon in 1923 and ministered in the Nottingham area. At his death in 1980 he was Canon of Southwell Cathedral. George’s elder brother was Joseph Sprittles who contributed many articles to the Thoresby Society, including a study of New Grange, the estate of which would in the early twentieth-century house the Training College.