John Godfrey Spragge

John Godfrey Spragge (September 6, 1806 – April 20, 1884) was a Canadian lawyer and judge.

Born in New Cross, Lewisham, England, he emigrated to Upper Canada in 1820 with his father, Joseph Spragge. He was called to the bar of Upper Canada in 1828 and practised law in York (now Toronto). In May 1881, he was appointed chief justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario (the title was changed later in the year to chief justice of Ontario). He served until his death in 1884.

Spragge as a justice on Ontario Court of Appeal presided over McLaren v Caldwell where he held that Ontario law made all streams, whether naturally or artificially floatable, public waterways. the Ontario statute in question extends only to such streams as would, in their natural state, without improvements, during freshets, permit saw logs, timber, etc., to be floated down them.