Windham Smith

(1813-1871)

LBT ID: WiSmith1871	B/BAP: 1813 DIED: 1871
SOURCES: Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (January 1872) 183-84; Stuart Johnson Reid, A Sketch of the Life and Times of the Rev. Sydney Smith (1885) 235; Ralph Nevill, Echoes Old and New (1919) 263
The younger son of Sydney Smith, educated at the Charterhouse (1823); known as “The Assassin” he had a reputation as a dandy and sportsman who devoted himself to horse-racing.
REFERENCES TO Windham Smith: Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, 17 September 1813 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ 8 Letters 1813 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VI. 1845-46. Found 1: ¶ 12