Sparling, William, M.A., St. John's Coll., Camb., 1840, B.A., twenty-eighth wrangler 1836, J.P. Salop, a student of Lincoln's Inn 3 May, 1836 (then aged 21), called to the bar 24 Nov., 1840 (eldest son of William Sparling, of Petton, formerly of Colchester, gent.); born , 1815; married 1st, 3 Dec, 1846, Esther, eldest dau. of John Thomas Betts, Esq., of Clapham, Surrey; she died , ; he married 2ndly, April, 1880, Marian, 2nd dau. of late Charles William Fletcher, Esq., of London.
- Petton Hall, Shrewsbury.