Men-at-the-Bar/Smith, Goldwin

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3803526Men-at-the-Bar — Smith, GoldwinJoseph Foster


Smith, Goldwin, LL.D. Brown Univ., U.S.A., 1864, professor of English and constitutional history Ithaca Univ., New York, since 1868, B.A., Magdalen Coll., Oxon, 1845 (from Eton), Hertford (1842) and Ireland scholarships (1845), chancellor's prize for Latin verse 1845, chancellor's prizes for Latin and English essay, fellow and tutor Univ. Coll., Oxon, 1846, assistant secretary to first and second Oxford commissions of inquiry, member of Education Commission 1859, regius professor of modern history Oxon 1858-66, author of A Short History of England down to the Reformation, The Civil War in America, Irish History and Irish Character, etc., a student of Lincoln's Inn 2 Nov., 1842 (then aged 19), called to the bar 11 June, 1850 (eldest son of Richard Prichard Smith, of Reading, M.D.); born 1823.

Ithaca University, New York.