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. | |