WH Smith is a British firm of newspaper, book and stationery retailers. The firm was founded in Duke Street, Grosvenor Square, London in 1821 by two brothers, William Henry Smith and Henry Edward Smith as a firm of newspaper agents, booksellers, stationers, printers and binders. The firm was originally controlled entirely by William Henry Smith from 1829 until 1846 when his eldest son, William Henry Smith, the Conservative politician, was taken into partnership. Its first railway bookstall was opened at Euston on the first of November 1848, and by the end of 1905 more than 200 stalls on the London and North West and Great Western Railway had been opened. Research WH Smith
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