John Sparrow (academic)

John Hanbury Angus Sparrow OBE (13 November 1906 – 24 January 1992) was an English academic, barrister, book-collector, and Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1952 to 1977.

• Without you, Heaven would be too dull to bear,
  And Hell would not be Hell if you are there.
  • Epitaph for Maurice Bowra, in The Times Literary Supplement (30 May 1975) p. 583