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Smith, Sydney
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Smith, Sydney (1771–1845). Smith was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he took orders and became a fellow. After two years in Wiltshire as a curate, he became tutor in 1797 to Michael Hicks Beach and then to his younger brother William. The continent being closed by the war, they settled in Edinburgh. During his stay there, he launched in 1802 the
Edinburgh Review with his friends
Brougham and Francis Jeffrey and contributed to it for 25 years. From 1806 Smith was rector of Foston near York, which he held until 1829, when he moved to the living of Combe Florey in Somerset. In 1807 his
Peter Plymley letters, urging religious liberty, had a great success. Smith was an ardent advocate of
catholic emancipation, had a distaste for the excesses of methodists, and his speech at Taunton in 1831 on parliamentary reform (‘Mrs Partington and the Atlantic Ocean’) became an instant classic. When his Whig friends came to power in 1830,
Grey gave him a canonry at St Paul's, but he was passed over for a bishopric, which hurt him.
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Sydney Smith, Jane Austen, and Henry Tilney.(Miscellany)
Magazine article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Netheravon church, the Rev. Sydney Smith. He wrote to Henrietta...took a great fancy to Sydney Smith and encouraged the...Pearson 30). Sydney Smith was known to pay flying...visiting his mother, bring Sydney closer to us; he has...
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 "The Capital Times (Madison, WI)")
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LIFE LESSON HITS HOME MADISON LA FOLLETTE JUNIOR SYDNEY SMITH WAS RECENTLY DIAGNOSED WITH HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA. BEING A PART OF THE LANCERS' BASKETBALL TEAM HAS PLAYED A POSITIVE ROLE IN HER RECOVERY -- AND HER TEAMMATES HAVE DRAWN INSPIRATION FROM SMITH'S DETERMINATION TO BEAT CANCER.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI); 1/23/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Capital Times When Sydney Smith participated in tryouts...about to turn worse. Smith's mother broke the bad news of Sydney's serious illness...the doctor," Gail Smith said. "They took...5 p.m. that day Sydney Smith was at UW Hospital...
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Beyond the obvious: the cases of sir Sydney Smith.
Magazine article from: The Forensic Examiner; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Littlejohn occupied the guards while Smith smuggled most of the parts out...without discovery. This had been Smith's first solo case, a difficult...autobiography, Mostly Murder, Smith states that as he grew up in...of his fellow pathologists as Sydney Smith did, and few have extracted...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Let them rest in peace; Relative: Maureen Marella Murky depths: Hopetoun Quarry, where the boys were killed Bodysnatcher: Sir Sydney Smith.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 1/10/2008; 700+ words
; ...18 months later, pathologist Sir Sydney Smith made hisname solving the crime...thatage. 'When I first read Sir Sydney Smith's book, my first reaction...from other sources. 'I think Sir Sydney Smith did a terrible thing taking...
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 "Hull Daily Mail (UK)")
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Johnson backs school's GCSE results appeal ; Hull West and Hessle MP Alan Johnson said he will back Sydney Smith School in its fight to get special consideration for pupils.
Newspaper article from: Hull Daily Mail (UK); 10/10/2008; 566 words
; ...MP Alan Johnson said he will back Sydney Smith School in its fight to get special...their exams, 60 per cent were at Sydney Smith. They also had to cope with...special circumstances surrounding Sydney Smith School." The school's headteacher...
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AMHERST COLLEGE SENIOR SYDNEY SMITH OF BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., IS FINALIST FOR ELIE WIESEL PRIZE IN ETHICS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/7/2006; 526 words
; ...University issued the following press release: Sydney Smith of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., wrote an essay...Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest. Smith is the daughter of Mr. Oscar R. Smith and Ms. Paula R. Smith of Bloomfield Hills...
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More on Sydney Smith. (Correspondence).
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 10/1/2001; ; 401 words
; ...historical character who usually got things wrong was Sydney Smith, and I'm relieved to see that Richard John Neuhaus...was decisive, a very unpopular position to have taken. Smith noted that "it was not safe for a clergyman to appear...
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Sydney Smith Hicks Becomes President of Sterling Commerce's Banking Systems Division.
Business Wire; 1/6/2003; 700+ words
; ...Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) and a worldwide leading provider of banking transaction applications, announces that Sydney Smith Hicks, Ph.D., has been appointed president of the division and senior vice president of Sterling Commerce, Inc...
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Multimedia Available: Sydney Smith Hicks Becomes President of Sterling Commerce's Banking Systems Division.
Business Wire; 1/6/2003; 566 words
; ...Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) and a worldwide leading provider of banking transaction applications, announces that Sydney Smith Hicks, Ph.D., has been appointed president of the division and senior vice president of Sterling Commerce Inc...
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Author encourages pupils to read more ; Hull: Pupils from Sydney Smith School and Archbishop Sentamu Academy joined forces with Hull Collegiate School youngsters to listen to Irish author and screenwriter Derek Landy.
Newspaper article from: Hull Daily Mail (UK); 4/2/2009; 312 words
; Hull: Pupils from Sydney Smith School and Archbishop Sentamu Academy joined forces with Hull Collegiate School youngsters to listen to Irish author and screenwriter...
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Sydney Smith
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sydney Smith 1771-1845, English clergyman, writer...s success. Moving to London in 1803, Smith lectured on moral philosophy at the Royal...residentiary canonry at St. Paul's. Smith's religion was strong and of a practical...
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Smith, Sydney
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Smith, Sydney (1771–1845). One of the...financial difficulties, and ungenerous. Sydney was educated at Winchester and New College...contributed to it for 25 years. From 1806 Smith was rector of Foston near York, which...
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Smith, Sydney Goodsir
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Smith, Sydney Goodsir (1915–75), poet, critic, and journalist, is remembered for his part in the 20th-cent. revival of poetry...
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Sydney
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cities
...services throughout Greater Sydney and other population centers...annually. Airports The Kingsford Smith Airport, located about ten kilometers (6.2 miles) south of Sydney's central business district...and cargo carriers. Shipping Sydney is served by Port Jackson...
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Sydney Group
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Sydney Group. A group of Australian artists founded in Sydney in 1945 to offer an alternative exhibiting venue to the...joined included Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan . Bernard Smith writes that ‘realistic comment, expressionism...
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