Born: 13-Aug-1823
Birthplace: Reading, Berkshire, England
Died: 7-Jun-1910
Location of death: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Controversialist

Father: Pritchard Smith (physician)
Mother: Elizabeth Breton
Mother: Katherine Dunkinfield (stepmother)
Brother: Arthur (d. 1845)
Wife: Harriet Dixon (widow of William Henry Boulton, m. 1873)

    High School: Eton College
    University: Christ Church College, Oxford University (transferred)
    University: Magdalen College, Oxford University (1845)
    Professor: University College, Oxford University

Author of books:
Irish History and Irish Character (1861)
Rational Religion, and the Rationalistic Objections of the Bampton Lectures for 1858 (1861)
The Reorganization of the University of Oxford (1868)
Canada and the Canadian Question (1891)
A Trip to England (1892)
The Moral Crusader, William Lloyd Garrison: A Biographical Essay Founded on "The Story of Garrison's Life Told by His Children" (1892)
The United States: An Outline of Political History, 1492-1871 (1893)
Essays on Questions of the Day, Political and Social (1893)
Oxford and Her Colleges: A View from the Radcliffe Library (1893)
The United Kingdom: A Political History (1899)
Cowper (1901)
Reminiscences (1910)

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