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. | |