- GB-2014-WSA-01296
- Person
- 1788-1836
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.