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Roberts, David Lloyd, M.D. St And. 1859, F.R.C.P. Lond. 1878, 
M.R.C.S. Eng., and L.S.A. 1857. Held the following appointments : — Cons. 
Obst. Phys., Manch. Roy. Infirmary : Phys. St Mary’s Hospital, Manch. ; Lect. 
on Clin. Midwf. and Dis. of Women, Owens Coll., Manch. He was a Fell. Med. 
Soc. Lond. ; Mem. Lit. and Philos. Soc. Manch. ; late Pres. N. of Eng. Obst. 
and Gynsecol. Soc. ; Yice-Pres. Obst. Sect. Brit. Med. Assoc., and Pres. Manch. 
Med. Soc., and was the author of the following books : — The Scientific 
Knowledge of Dante, 1914 ; The Practice of Midwifery ; Cases of Ovario- 
tomy ; Clinical Papers ; The Various Methods of Treating the Pedicle in 
Ovariotomy ; Edr. Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici, etc. He also 
published papers in the Obstetrical Transactions, and in the Transactions 
St. And. Med. Grad. Assoc. 
Dr Roberts was elected to the Fellowship of this Society in 1880, and 
died on 20th September 1920. 
Sprague, Thomas Bond, M.A. Camb., LL.D. St Andrews, F.I.A., 
Hon. F.F.A., was born on 29th March 1830, and was the eldest son of 
Thomas Sprague of London, Wholesale Stationer. He was educated at 
Tarvin Hall, a private school near Chester, under the Headmastership of 
Dr John Brindley. While at school he distinguished himself so much in 
mathematics that Dr Brindley advised his father to send him to Cambridge, 
and he accordingly entered St John’s College as a Sizar. At the end of his 
first year he became a Proper Sizar, and in consequence of the excellent 
places he took in the College examinations, he became in due course a 
Scholar. In 1853 he was Senior Wrangler and First Smith’s Prizeman, 
and was elected a Fellow of St John’s College, and appointed one of the 
College Lecturers. About this time he qualified in law and was called to 
the Bar, having in view the law as his future profession. Progress, how- 
ever, being slow, he sought a career which would be more immediately 
remunerative, and entered the Eagle Insurance Company in 1855 as a pupil 
of the late Charles Jellicoe. 
After holding some minor appointments, Dr Sprague was, for a short 
time, Actuary of the then Liverpool and London Assurance Company, until 
in 1861 he was appointed, at the age of 31, Actuary and Secretary of the 
Equity and Law Life Assurance Society, wuth which Society he remained 
for twelve years. In 1873 he became Manager of the Scottish Equitable 
Life Office. This involved his removal to Edinburgh. In 1900, after being 
twenty-seven years Manager of the Scottish Equitable, he retired from 
active business life. In 1893 the University of Aberdeen conferred on him 
the degree of LL.D. 
