George Murray Smith

(1824-1901)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Smith, George, 1824-1901 DNB: Smith, George Murray (1824–1901), publisher, businessman, and founder of the Dictionary of National Biography LBT ID: GeSmith1901 VIAF ID: 27204076 LOC ID: n89610667	B/BAP: 1824-03-19 DIED: 1901-04-06
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The son of the publisher George Smith (d. 1846); after the death of his father and retirement of Alexander Elder he became the publisher of Charlotte Brontë, Leigh Hunt, Thackeray, Gaskell, and Ruskin.
REFERENCES TO George Murray Smith: 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 IX Found 1: ¶ 18