John Sparrow

Sir John Sparrow, FCA (4 June 1933 – 21 March 2020) was an English businessman, chartered accountant and government adviser.

Educated at the Stationers' Company's School he went on to London School of Economics (LSE), he worked in the accountancy firm Rawlinson and Hunter from 1954 to 1959, before spells with Ford, AEI-Hotpoint and United Leasing Corporation in the early 1960s. From 1964 to 1988, he worked for the Morgan Grenfell Group, He was knighted for his service 1984. He was also a governor of LSE from 1984 to 2003 (serving as vice-chairman until 1993) and was made an honorary LSE fellow in 1994, and also held an honorary fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge, from 1987.