Goldwin Smith
1823–1910
Historian, journalist, and essayist. Law fellow at University College, Oxford, 1846–67; called to the bar, 1850, but became tutor at University College, also writing for the Saturday Review and other newspapers. Regius professor of modern history, Oxford University, 1858–66; honorary professor of history, Cornell University, 1868. Moved to Toronto in 1871. Wrote for the Canadian Monthly and the Nation, and founded several Canadian newspapers. Liberal activist and controversialist.
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DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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