James Smirnove

(1754-1840)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Smirnov, I︠A︡kov Ivanovich, 1759-1840 LBT ID: JaSmirn1840 VIAF ID: 104527867 LOC ID: no91027758	B/BAP: 1754 DIED: 1840-04-28
SOURCES: Times (30 April 1840); The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham: January 1809 to December 1816 (1988) 30n; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Chaplain at the Russian embassy in London; he was a member of the Literary Union Club and contributed to the Literary Gazette.
REFERENCES TO James Smirnove: Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 14: Private Life Found 1: ¶ 3 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 18 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 11 Found 1: ¶ 3