SPURLING, John (Jack) Henry Forster

1871 - 1924

John Henry Forster Spurling was born at Shotley, Suffolk on 27 June 1871 and baptised at St Mary's Church, Shotley, Ipswich on 24 July 1871, only child of Henry Spurling (1838-14 June 1894), an auctioneer, and his wife Amelia Jessie née Lanchester (1836-5 January 1897), who married at Shotley in April 1870. John studied music at Dr Bates Musical College in Norwich and in 1891, a 19-year-old solo pianist & musician, living at Sunnybank, Warrington Road, Ipswich with his parents, 52-year-old Henry and 52-year-old Amelia, and they had living with them a niece, 20-year-old Alice Alston, as a mother's help, and they retained two indoor servants. As Jack H. F. Spurling, a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club 1888-1893 and exhibited from Sunnybank, Warrington Road, Ipswich in 1888, 'Handford Meadows' and 'On the Beach, Felixstowe', in 1889 'Rushmere Heath', 'Still Life' and 'After a Little Summer Shower' and his last exhibits as 'Jack' Spurling was in 1892, 'A Summer Morning' and 'A Sketch at Shotley Point'. In 1901, a 29-year-old 'living on own means', visiting 31-year-old Charles Shaw, a 'retired' bank manager at 42 Upper Westbourne Villas, Aldrington, Steyning, Sussex. John Henry Forster Spurling died at The Flower House, Catford, Kent on 2 November 1924, aged 53.

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