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SMITH, JOSEPH; b. c. 1674; at school under Busby (British Library, Add. MSS 32694, ff 545-6, 589); living in Venice from c. 1700; initially worked for Thomas Williams, a banker there; became partner in firm Williams & Smith, bankers and meat importers, and manager of their business interests in Venice from 1720; British Consul, Venice Jun 1744-60; a well-known collector of books, manuscripts and paintings; patron of the Venetian painter Canaletto; a catalogue of his collection of printed books was published in 1755, and the collection was sold as a whole to King George III in the early 1760s; m. 1st, c. 1717 Catherine Tofts, opera singer; m. 2nd, 1757 Elizabeth, sister of John Murray, British Resident, Venice; d. at Venice 6 Nov 1770.
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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.