Men-at-the-Bar/Smith, Josiah William

by Joseph Foster

Smith, Josiah William, Q.C., LL.B., Trin. Hall, Camb., 1 841, judge of county courts (circuit No. 27) 1865-79, author of Manual of Common Law, Compendium of Real and Personal Property, Manual of Equity Jurisprudence, and Manual of Bankruptcy, a student of Lincoln's Inn 9 Nov., 1836 (then aged 20), called to the bar 6 May, 1841, Q.C. 25 Feb., 1861, bencher 13 March, 1861 (only child of Rev. John Smith, M.A., rector of Baldock, Herts); born 3 April, 1816; married , , Mary, 2nd dau. of late George Henry Hicks, M.D., of Baldock, Herts.

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