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SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 271 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SMITH, See also:WILLIAM See also:HENRY (1808—1872) , See also:English author, was See also:born at See also:Hammersmith, See also:London, in 18o8. He was educated at Radley School, and in 1821 was sent to See also:Glasgow University. In 1823 he entered a lawyer's See also:office, in which he remained for five years. He was called to the See also:bar, but had no practice. He contributed to the See also:Literary See also:Gazette and to the See also:Athenaeum, under the name of " See also:Wool-gatherer," attracting some See also:attention by the delicacy and finish of his See also:style. Ernesto, a philosophical See also:romance, appeared in 1835, two poems, Guidone and Solitude, in 1836, and in 1839 he formed a connexion with See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine, for which he acted as philosophical critic for See also:thirty years. In '846 a visit to See also:Italy led to the See also:writing of a See also:tale entitled Mildred, which was too purely reflective to be successful. In 1851 he declined the See also:chair of moral See also:philosophy at See also:Edinburgh, being unwilling to abandon his quiet, studious See also:life in the See also:Lake See also:District. There he completed his philosophic romance Thorndale (1857), which was considered at the See also:time to be a See also:work of real intellectual value. A similar See also:production, Gravenhurst, appeared in '862; a second edition contained a memoir of the author by his wife. Smith died at See also:Brighton on 28th See also:March '872. He also wrote two plays, one of which, Athelwold, was produced by See also:Macready in '843.

It was published with his other tragedy, See also:

Sir William See also:Crichton, in '846.

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