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Sir William Smith was a British classical scholar and encyclopaedist. He was born in 1813 and died in 1893. After studying at University College, London, and Gray's Inn he became a master at University College School and edited works of Plato and Tacitus. He produced a number of important classical works including a dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology and A Dictionary of the Bible. He was knighted in 1892.
Sir William Sidney Smith was a British sailor. He was born in 1764 and died in 1840. he entered the navy at the age of thirteen, and served on the North American station. From 1785 until 1790 he travelled in France, Morocco and Sweden and in 1790 served as a volunteer in the Swedish expedition against Russia. In 1793 he was recalled to the navy, took part in Hood's action off Toulon, and commanded a frigate in the North Sea from 1794 until 1796, when he was captured by the French. After two years he escaped, was given a Mediterranean command, and in 1799 undertook the defence of St Jean d'Acre against Napoleon., holding the place successfully for eleven weeks. He prosecuted the war off the coasts of Italy from 1806 until 1807, upholding the rule of the Bourbon tyrants. He retired in 1814.
William Smith was an American jurist and politician. He was born in 1762 and died in 1840. He represented South Carolina in the US Congress as a Democrat from 1797 to 1799. He was a circuit judge from 1799 to 1816. He served in the South Carolina Senate from 1806 to 1808. He was a US Senator from 1817 to 1823 and from 1826 to 1831. He was a strict State-rights advocate, but opposed nullification.
William Smith was an American politician. He was born in 1796 and died in 1887. He represented Virginia in the US Congress as a Democrat from 1841 to 1843. He was Governor of Virginia from 1845 to 1848, and again a Congressman from 1853 to 1861.
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