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{{Short description|English cricketer and engineer (1863–1943)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2013}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Frederick Laurence Sprott
| nickname =
| birth_date = 10 July 1863
| birth_place = [[Shrewsbury]], [[Shropshire]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1943|3|24|1863|7|10|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Roydon, South Norfolk|Roydon]], [[Norfolk]], England
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| batting = Left-handed
| bowling =
| role = [[Wicket-keeper]]
| family =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1892/93–1914/15
| club2 = [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]]
| year2 = 1902/03
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 25
| runs1 = 450
| bat avg1 = 13.63
| 100s/50s1 = –/1
| top score1 = 68
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 19/13
| date = 9 December
| year = 2022
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/frederick-sprott-34446 ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Sir Frederick Laurence Sprott''' (10 July 1863 — 24 March 1943) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and engineer.

The son of James Sprott, he was born at [[Shrewsbury]] in July 1863.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage|first=Robert Phipps|last=Dod|year=1923|publisher=S. Low, Marston & Company|location=London|page=815|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sI7KJ-hGhDMC|language=en}}</ref> He was educated at [[Shrewsbury School]], from where he attended the [[Royal Indian Engineering College]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=Shrewsbury School Register|date=1909|first=J. E.|last=Auden|publisher=Woodhall, Minshall, &, Co., Claxton Press|pages=233|url=https://archive.org/details/shrewsburyschool00shreuoft/page/n6/mode/2up|language=en}}</ref> From there, he went to [[British India]] where he joined the Public Works Department in 1884, being appointed an assistant engineer in 1885 and executive engineer in 1897.<ref name="AFR">{{cite web|url=https://www.europeansineastafrica.co.uk/_site/custom/database/default.asp?a=viewIndividual&pid=2&person=10719|title=SPROTT, Frederick Laurence KB, Sir|publisher=www.europeansineastafrica.co.uk|access-date=9 December 2022}}</ref> Sprott was principal and professor of engineering at the [[College of Engineering, Pune|College of Science]] in [[Pune|Poona]] from 1899 to 1903. Appointed a superintendent engineer in 1904, he served on the [[Indus River]] Commission from 1904 to 1908 and following his time with the commission he was a sanitary engineer for the [[Bombay Presidency|Government of Bombay]]. Sprott was appointed deputy chairman of the [[Mumbai Port Trust|Bombay Port Trust]] in 1909 and became chairman the following year, an appointment which lasted until 1918.<ref name="AFR"/> He was [[Knight Bachelor|Knighted]] by [[George V]] in June 1914.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28854|date=31 July 1914|page=5963}}</ref>

Beginning in August 1892, he forged a successful career in [[first-class cricket]] in India, making 25 appearances up to 1914. 24 of these came for the [[Europeans cricket team]] in the [[Bombay Quadrangular|Bombay Presidency Matches]], with a further appearance coming in 1902 for [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]] against the touring [[Oxford University Authentics cricket team]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14613/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Frederick Sprott|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=9 December 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Playing as a [[wicket-keeper]], took 19 catches and made 13 [[stumping]]s in his 25 first-class matches. As a batsman, he scored 450 runs at an [[batting average (cricket)|average]] of 13.63; he made one half century, a score of 68.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14613/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Frederick Sprott|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=9 December 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Sprott moved to [[Kenya Colony]] in 1919, where he bought a small property called Cooper's Hill. He was an elected member of the [[Legislative Council of Kenya]] and sat on the Kenya Land Settlement Advisory Board.<ref name="AFR"/> Sprott died in England in March 1943 at [[Roydon, South Norfolk|Roydon, Norfolk]].<ref>Sir Frederick Lawrence Sprott Dead. ''[[Civil and Military Gazette]]''. 27 March 1943. p. 2</ref> He was survived by his wife, Amy Graham Dame, whom he had married in 1888.<ref name="AFR"/> They had two sons, one of whom died in the [[First World War]] during the [[Mesopotamian campaign]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Law Journal|year=1917|publisher=E. B. Ince|page=552|volume=51|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-NQ5AQAAIAAJ|language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=34446}}

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