|
Sir James Edward Smith was an English botanist. He was born in 1759 at Norwich and died in 1828. Educated at Edinburgh University, studying medicine, he later studied botany under John Hope and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1785. In 1788 he founded the Linnean Society on the model of the Royal Society, and became its first president, holding the office until his death.
James Smith was an Irish colonist. He was born in l720 and died in 1806. He went to America from Ireland in 1729. He raised the first Pennsylvania company in 1774 for resisting Great Britain. He aided the American independence cause by 'An Essay on the Constitutional Power of Great Britain over the Colonies in America'. He represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1778, and signed the American Declaration of Independence.
 Research James Smith
|
Abbreviations
People
