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Smith, James

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | | Copyright

Smith, James (c.1645–1731). Scots architect. As a young man he travelled on the Continent, but by 1679 was settled in Edinburgh, married to a daughter of Robert Mylne (1633–1710), architect and builder, and in 1683 was appointed Surveyor or Overseer of the Royal Works. He built Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire (c.1680–90—probably based on designs by his father-in-law), designed Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire (1693–1701—demolished), Melville House, Fife (1697–1700), and Yester House, East Lothian (c.1700–15), remodelled Dalkeith House, Midlothian (1702–10), and constructed the Mackenzie mausoleum in Greyfriars churchyard, Edinburgh (c.1690–2), among much else. He was responsible for disseminating the Classical style introduced by Bruce to Scotland, but in his surviving drawings it is clear he was familiar with the works of Palladio, and he may have been an early and formative influence on Colen Campbell and therefore on English Palladianism. In his realized buildings, however, any Palladian tendencies were decidedly muted. His works pre-date any Palladian essays of the Burlington Palladian Revival which therefore may have originated in Scotland.

Bibliography

Architectural History, xvii (1974), 5–13;
Colvin (1995);
Dunbar et al. (1995)

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Smith, James

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | | Copyright

Smith, James (c.1737–c.1814),Pennsylvania frontiersman and Indian fighter whose An Account of Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith (1799) is considered a primary source concerning pioneer life in the Ohio Valley. A Treatise on the Mode and Manner of Indian War (1812) is mainly drawn from his earlier work.

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James Smith

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

James Smith c.1719–1806, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Ireland. He settled in Pennsylvania in his youth and practiced law at York. He served in provincial assemblies and conventions and advocated independence early. He was (1776–78) a member of the Continental Congress.

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James Smith 1775–1839: see Smith, Horatio .

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