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Smedley, Edward, 1788-1836
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1788-1836
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SMEDLEY, EDWARD, son of Edward Smedley (KS 1764, qv); b. 12 Sep 1788; adm. 1795; KS 1800; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1805, adm. pens. 27 May 1805, scholar 18 Apr 1806; BA 1809; MA 1812; First Members’ Prize for Lain Essay (Middle Bachelors) 1810, Second Members’ Prize for Latin Essay (Senior Bachelors) 1811; Fellow, Sidney Sussex Coll, . 1812-6; Seatonian Prize for English Sacred Poem 1813, 1814, 1827, 1828; ordained deacon 22 Sep 1811, priest 20 Sep 1812 (both Winchester); Curate, Meopham, Kent; Preacher at St. James’s Chapel, Tottenham Court Road, London; Clerk in Orders, St. James’s, Westminster 1815-9, afterwards Preacher there; Evening Lecturer, St. Giles’s, Camberwell; Prebendary of Lincoln from 21 Jul 1829; editor, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, from 1822; frequent contributor to British Critic and Penny Encyclopaedia; his Poems, with a selection from his correspondence and a short memoir, were published in 1837; m. 8 Jan 1816 Mary, sister of John Deacon Hume (qv); d. 29 Jun 1836. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.