Sir William Smith

(1813-1893)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Smith, William, 1816-1896 DNB: Smith, Sir William (1813–1893), classical and biblical scholar LBT ID: WiSmith1893 VIAF ID: 120545425 LOC ID: no2010060765	B/BAP: 1813-05-20 DIED: 1893-10-07
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Educated at University College, London, he produced reference books on classical and biblical history, beginning with Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1842).
REFERENCES TO Sir William Smith: John Gibson Lockhart to James Hope-Scott, 7 October 1852 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter XI Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 8 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 22: 1850-53 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) VII. Informers and Defamers Found 1: ¶ n3