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Smith, Edmund, 1671-1710
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1671-1710
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SMITH, EDMUND, only son of Edmund Neale, London, merchant, and Margaret, dau. of Sir Nicholas Lechmere, Kt, Baron of the Exchequer; bapt. St. Bartholomew Exchange, London 29 Jan 1671 (IGI); adopted by a kinsman named Smith, whose surname he assumed; adm.; KS 1684; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1688, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1688, aged 16, Canoneer Student 9 Jul 1688 – expulsion 20 Dec 1705; BA 1692; MA 1696; his irregular behaviour frequently brought him into conflict with the authorities at Oxford; admonished for profligate behaviour 24 Dec 1694, conditionally expelled for riotous behaviour 24 Apr 1700 and eventually deprived of his Studentship for lampooning Henry Aldrich (qv), then Dean of Christ Church; adm. Inner Temple 1690; his tragedy Phaedra and Hippolytus, with a prologue by Addison and an epilogue by Prior, was produced at the Haymarket Theatre 21 Apr 1707; Johnson declared that Smith’s Latin ode on the death of Dr. Pococke was unequalled among modern writers, and that his Elegy on John Philips was “among the best elegies which our language can show” (Lives of the Poets, ed. Hill, ii, 12, 16); his Works, with a life by William Oldisworth, were published in 1719; buried Hartham, Wilts., Jul 1710. 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.