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In 1902 Sprott celebrated his ministerial jubilee of 50 years, but with heart weakness he petitioned the presbytery next year for the appointment of an assistant and successor, and retired to Edinburgh. He died at Edinburgh of heart disease on 27 October 1909, and was buried at North Berwick.
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ministers without Presbyterian ordination. In 1884 he saw the erection of a new parish church. In the summer of 1879 the assembly had sent him to visit the Presbyterian churches of Canada, and also appointed him to a lectureship in
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In 1856 Sprott married Mary (d. 1874), daughter of Charles Hill of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Four sons also predeceased their father; a son, Harold, a lawyer in Edinburgh, and four married daughters survived.
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His father approved of his son's decision to join the Church of Scotland, and, ordained in 1852 by the presbytery of Dunoon, Sprott returned to Nova Scotia, to act as assistant at
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Sprott joined on its formation, in 1886, the Aberdeen (later the Scottish) Ecclesiological Society, and in 1892 took a leading part in founding and conducting the
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In Ceylon Sprott wrote a pamphlet on the Dutch Church there. Opposing what he was as a drift of Scottish church people towards
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These books were all issued by the Church Service Society. He also wrote an account of his father and of Nova Scotian life,
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As lecturer in pastoral theology, Sprott spoke at the four Scottish universities, and published
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In 1865 Sprott left Ceylon and acted for a time as chaplain to the Scottish troops at
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The Liturgy of Compromise used in the English Congregation at Frankfort, 1557
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Sprott graduated with a BA in 1849. He had introductions to the families of
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After an unsuccessful application for the chair of church history in the
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The Worship, Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of Scotland
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Sprott, early in 1873, was presented to the parish of
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Scottish clergyman and liturgical scholar (1829–1909)
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