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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Smith, William, 1756-1835 NRA: Smith William (1756-1835) Politician DNB: Smith, William (1756-1835), politician and dissenter LBT ID: WiSmith1835 VIAF ID: 70414603 LOC ID: n86104925 | B/BAP: 1756-09-22 DIED: 1835-05-31 |
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Educated at the dissenting academy at Daventry, he was a Whig MP for Sudbury (1784-90,
1796-1802), Camelford (1790-96), and Norwich (1802-30), a defender of Joseph Priestley and
follower of Charles Fox. His 1817 speech in Parliament denouncing Robert Southey attracted
much attention. | |
REFERENCES TO William Smith: Robert Southey to William Smith, M.P., 1817 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 11 March 1817 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of
John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Robert Southey to Humphrey Senhouse, 22 March 1817 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1:
¶ 1 Walter Scott to Robert Southey, 9 May 1817 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 13 May 1817 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1:
¶ 2 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 9 April 1819 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1:
¶ 1 Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, [April] 1820 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1:
¶ 2 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.;
with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XVI. 1776-1790 Found 1:
¶ 18 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 19 August 1832 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1:
¶ 5 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter IX. 1806-1807 Found 1:
¶ 25 Chapter XI. 1809-1810 Found 1:
¶ 6 Chapter XXI. Found 1:
¶ 49 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1817 Found 1:
¶ n1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 18: Mr. Perceval Found 1:
¶ 3 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VI. 1794-1796 Found 1:
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