Walter Sprott's Career

1808 September 2 Articled to Richard Jones, Atty Kings Bench, to "truly serve the said Richard Jones as his clerk in the business profession and practice of an attorney of his majesty’s court of Kings Bench and as an attorney or Solicitor in his Majesty’s other courts at Westminster for and during the term of five years commencing from the day of the date of the said in part recited articles." (Ancestry.com Articles of Clerkship database) 

1808 November 4 Articles of clerkship registered. (Ancestry.com Articles of Clerkship database)

1808 November 23 Execution of articles of clerkship and payment of duty of L110 sworn to in court.  (Ancestry.com Articles of Clerkship database)

1815 October 11 Dissolved a partnership with John Stileman Bostock (1816 March 12 London Gazette)

1816 George Langridge articled to Walter Sprott (Ancestry.com Articles of Clerkship database)

1816 Frederic Talbot articled to Walter Sprott (Ancestry.com Articles of Clerkship database)

1816 July 2 Jones, Rowland & Sprott, Tunbridge Wells, Solicitors (1816 July 6 London Gazette, Notice for the estate of Thomas Wighton)

1818 Robert Foreman articled to Walter Sprott (Ancestry.com Articles of Clerkship database)

1818 Walter Sprott, Tonbridge Wells, Kent. Country Attorney. London agent was Rowland and Co. (Clarkes' New Law List, 1818)

1820 February 14 Partnership was “Rowland and Sprott” (1820 Feb 14 Sussex Advertiser, Lewes, East Sussex, notice for the estate of Thomas Hayward)

1821 Master of Chancery, Tunbridge Wells

1821 Dissolved partnership with Daniel Rowland (Attornies, Solicitors, Conveyancers) (30 November 1832 The London Gazette)

1824 Nominated Under Sheriff for the year, Sussex (1824 Feb 16 Sussex Advertiser)

1824 Walter Sprott, Attorney (Pigot's Directory of Kent, 1824)

1825 Robert Foreman commences partnership with Walter Sprott Esq. Tunbridge Wells (1825 Feb 19 The Ipswich Journal)

1826 Mr. Sprott, Solicitor of Lord Abergavenny (1825 Aug 25 Brighton Gazette, "Water Company")

1827 Walter Sprott, Tonbridge Wells, Kent. Country Attorney. London agent was Hy. Young (Clarkes' New Law List, 1827)


1827 Mr. Walter Sprott, Master Extra. in Chancery, Com in King's Bench, Common Plea and Exchequer, Abergavenny Place (Clifford's Descriptive Guide of Tunbridge Wells, 1827) 

1829 Mr. Walter Sprott, Master Extra. in Chancery, Com in King's Bench, Common Plea and Exchequer, Abergavenny Place (Visitors Guide to Tunbridge Wells, 1829) 

1834 Mr. Walter Sprott, Master Extra. in Chancery, Com. in Kings Bench, Common Plea and Exchequer, Abergavenny Place (The Tunbridge Wells Guide, 1834, J. Clifford, Google Books)

1840 Walter Sprott, Attorney, Abergavenny place (Pigot's Directory of Kent, 1840)

SOURCES
Ancestry.com. UK, Articles of Clerkship, 1756-1874 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Court of King's Bench: Plea Side: Affidavits of Due Execution of Articles of Clerkship, Series I, II, III (KB 105-107). The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey. Registers of Articles of Clerkship and Affidavits of Due Execution (CP 71). The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey.)