No­vem­ber 18, 1836.

Jan­u­a­ry 12, 1837, St. Pan­cras, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Son of Ro­bert Smith, of West­bourne Ter­race, Hyde Park, Lon­don, Smith was ed­u­cat­ed at King’s Coll­ege, Lon­don, and Trin­i­ty Hall, Cam­bridge (BA in honors, 1860). Called to the bar in 1862, he held sev­er­al im­port­ant posts, and be­came a Me­tro­pol­i­tan Po­lice Ma­gis­trate in 1888. He pub­lished sev­er­al vol­umes on le­gal sub­jects, and his other works in­clude:

• Pilate’s Wife’s Dream, 1860
• Po­ems, 1889
• Interludes, 1892, 1894 & 1899
• Po­ems, 1897
• Hymns and Psalms, 1903

• Julian, p. 1704

1. Glory to God, All the Hea­vens Are Tell­ing
2. Roll Back the Stone, for the An­gel of God Has De­scend­ed
3. Sweet Is the Breath of Morn­ing Air