Education
Merton College.
Merton College.
A student of Gustav Mann, Spurrell went on to discover and classify fish, reptiles and frogs from the Gold Coast and South America, and was a Fellow of the Zoological Society. Among the species named after him are Spurrell"s Free-tailed Bat and Spurrell"s Woolly British American Tobacco During the First World War he served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
He died of pneumonia at Alexandria, Egypt, on 8 November 1918.
He was also the author of a number of books, both scientific and fictional:
The Commonwealth of Cells: Some popular essays on human physiology, 1901, Bailliere, Tindall & Cox
Out of the Past, 1903, Greening
At Sunrise: A story of the Beltane, 1904, Greening
Modern Manitoba and his Forerunners: A short study of the human species living and extinct, 1917, George Bell & Sons.
Patriotism: A biological study, 1911, George Bell & Sons.
He was a nephew of the archaeologist Flaxman Charles John Spurrell and a member of the Spurrell family of Norfolk.