SLIGO WHO WAS WHO, 1897-1916 SLIGO, 5th Marquess of (cr. 1800), Henry 1894, Marion, d. of late Major Ansell, 4th Ulick Browne, D.L. ; Baron Mount Eagle, (K.O.) Regt. ; two d. Educ. : St. Andrews Earl of 1760 ; Viscount Westport, 1768 ; Univ. (M.A.). Posted to N.W.P. 1867 ; sent Altamont, 1771 ; Baron Monteagle (U.K.), to Burma to organise Land and Revenue b. of 1806. [1st Earl's g. /., John Browne, administration. 1879 ; Direc. Agriculture Sir of 1st George Browne, g. g. f. Baron and Commerce, N.W.P. 1884 ; Chiet Sec. Kilmaine, was a colonel under James II. ; Burma, 1887 ; Commissioner Central Divi- was one who signed the capitulation of sion Upper Burma, 1888-91 (military medal Limerick was Governor of with two of ; 2nd Marquis clasps, thanks Government) ; b. s. of 2nd Mar- Financial of Jamaica.] March 1831 ; Commissioner Burma, 1891 ; quess of Sligo and Hester, d. of 13th Earl of - Officiating Chief Commissioner, 1892 and 1896 of Clanricarde ; m. 1855, Catherine Henrietta, ; Member Burma Legislative Council, rf. of W. S. Dicken ; four s. four d. ; S. bro. 1898 ; Member of Viceroy's Legislative : 1903. Educ. Rugby and Haileybury. Council, 1899-1902 ; President Basingstoke Served Bengal Civil Service, 1851-86. Liberal Association. Decorated for services Church of Ireland. Conservative. Owned in India and Burma. Publications : Mono- : s. of about 114,900 acres. Heir Earl graph on the Indian Currency, 1877 ; The : of Altamont. Address Westport House, Karens Burma, 1887 ; annotated editions of Westport. Mayo ; 41 Eccleston Square. S.W. various Codes; and other official publica- (Died 24 Feb. 1913. tions. Recreations : outdoor of all sorts. Clubs : Reform SMALLFIELD, F., A.R.W.S. Address : Nether- ; Liberal, Glasgow ; Royal and St. Andrews. leigh, Crescent Road, Finchley, N. Ancient, 19 [Died 10 Sept. 1915. [Died Apr. 1910. SMEATON, William Henry Oliphant (nom de SMART, John, R.S.A. (1877), R.S.W. ; land- plume Oliphant Smeaton), M.A. ; F.S.A. ; b. scape painter ; Edinburgh, 16 Oct. 1838 ; novelist and journalist ; b. Aberdeen ; y. *. s. of Robert Campbell Smart, engraver, and of late Rev. Prof. Smeaton, D.D. ; g. g. n. Emily Morton ; m. 1870, Margaret Agnes of John Smeaton of Eddystone Lighthouse Purdie, d. of Robert Main, Doune, Perth- fame ; m. Wilhelmine, d. of late George shire. Educ. : Leith High School ; Art Rostrevor one d. Educ. : Education Schools of the Hon. Board of Clark, ; Iloyal High School and University, Edinburgh. Manufactures. Apprenticed as an engraver, Studied for Church, but owing to difficulties 1853 ; of Horatio M'Culloch, R.S.A. pupil over the subscribing of the Confession of 1860 ; entered the Hon. Board of Trustees' Faith relinquished the intention ; went to School, 1851. Medal, Melbourne Exhibi- New Zealand, 1878 ; Principal of Whangarei tion ; gold medal, Edinb. International Ex- High School, 1881-83 ; went to Melbourne, hibition, 1886 ; A.R.S.A. 1871 ; original 1883, as leader writer and dramatic critic on member of Scottish Water Colour Royal Daily Telegraph; editor Daily Northern Society. Works in oil : The Graves of our Argus, Queensland, 1888-93, in which year Ain Folk ; The Gloom of Glen Ogle ; The he returned to England ; edited the Liberal, Land of Macgregor ; The Last Rest of the 1895 ; also Christian Leader, 1903 ; Lec- Clansmen ; Shadow and Shower, a Dream turer on Shakespeare, Heriot Watt College, of Strathearn. Publications : The Golf and on English Literature, Craigmount Coll. Greens of Scotland ; Series of Etchings of Edinburgh ; contributed to many leading Twenty of the Older Greens. Recreations : journals and periodicals. Publications : By golf, fishing, shooting. Address : 13 Bruns- Adverse Winds, 1895 ; Allan Ramsay, 1896 ; wick Street, Hillside, Edinburgh. Clubs : Smollett, 1897 ; Our Laddie, 1897 ; William Scottish Arts, Pen and Pencil, Edinburgh. Dunbar and his Times, 1898 ; Memorable 1 June 1899. [Died of Edinburgh Houses. 1898 ; Treasure Cave LL.D. SMART, William, D.Phil., ; Adam the Blue Mountains, 1899; A Mystery of; Smith Prof, of Political at Economy Glasgow the Pacific, 1899 ; English Satires and Univ. from 1896 ; b. 10 April Renfrewshire, Satirists (Warwick Library), 1899 ; Thomas 1853 o. s. of Alexander Smart ; m. Kath- ; Guthrie, the Scots Massillpn, 1900; The arine e. d. of Rev. Wm. Stewart, Symington, Medici and the Italian Renaissance, 1901 ; ; onerf. Educ.: School Scots D.D., Glasgow High Life of Principal Morison, 1901 ; and Univ. of Glasgow (M.A.). In business Essayists from Stirling to Stevenson (Scott till 1884 Lecturer in as a manufacturer ; Library), 1902; Kingsley's Heroes, Boys' Coll. 1886-87 Lecturer in Univ. Dundee, ; Edition of Don Quixote, and for the Temple Coll. Glasgow, 1886-96 ; Familiar Queen Margaret Classics, Macaulay's Lays ; Howell's and in 1892-96 ; Pres. of Section University, Letters, 1903 ; Owen Feltham's Resolves ; British F, Association, Cambridge, 1904; Carlyle's Essays ; Coleridge's Biographia Member of Royal Commission on the Poor 1904 Dekker's Gul's Literaria, ; Hornb9ok : Bohm-Bawerk's Laws, 1905. Publications and Belman of London (Pts. i. and ii.), 1890 Bohm- Capital and Interest, (transl.) ; 1905; in Dent's School Shakespeare, the Bawerk's Positive Theory of Capital, 1891 Tempest, 1902, Hamlet, 1903; The Story Wieser's Natural 1893 (transl.) ; Value, of Edinburgh, 1904; in Dent's Temple Introduction to the of (edited) ; An Theory Dramatists, Dekker's Old Fortunate, 1904; 1891 Studies in 1895 Value, ; Economics, ; The Return from Parnassus, 1905 ; Peele's The Distribution of 1899 ; Taxation Ford's Income, Arraignment of Paris, 1905 ; Broken of Land Values and the Single Tax, 1900 ; Heart, 1906 ; Scott (Golden Poets Series), The Return to 1904 ; Economic vols. Protection, 1907 ; Edition of Gibbon, 6 (Every- Annals of the Ninteeenth Century, 1801-20, man's Library), 1909 ; Life of Shakespeare, 1910 etc. Recreations : golf, 1911 ; cycling, 1911 ; Gibbon's Autobiography, ; billiards. Address : Dowanhill Nunholm, edited Gem Library, 25 vols., 1910-11 ; Gardens, Glasgow. Clubs : Western, Glas- edited Channels of English Literature Series, : Prestwick and Troon Golf. edited the gow 1912 et seq. ; Longfellow, 1913 ; [Died 19 March 1915. Fasti of the Free Church of Scotland (1843- C.S.I. also several school books. SMEATON, Donald Mackenzie, 1895 ; 1900), 1913; K.i.H. 1900; M.P. (L.) Stirlingshire from Recreations : geological science, archaeology, retired 1902 Member Address : 37 Mansion 1906 ; l.C.S. ; ; Imp. fly-fishing, cycling. House The Lindens, Legislative Council of India ; Vice-President Road, Edinburgh ; Club : Scot- North Hants Liberal Federation ; b. 9 Sept. Kinnesswood, Kinross, N.B. s. of J. Smeaton of Park tish 1848 ; D. Abbey Libera', Edinburgh. m. 31 March 1914. and Letham, Fiteshire ; 1st, 1873, [Died a Annette Louisa (d. 1880), d. of Sir H. Lush- SMILES, William, C.B. 1890 ; was Special s. of Income Tax b. 1824 ; ington, Bt., Aspenden Hall, Herts ; 2nd, Commissioner, ; 656 WHO WAS WHO, 1897-1916 SMITH Samuel N.B. ; m. Smiles, Haddington, 1848, SMITH, Benjamin Eli, A.M., L.H.D. ; editor Jane Cole, d. of late William Clark, Devon- of the Century Dictionary from the death of Address : 39 Elsham port. Road, Kensing- Professor W. D. Whitney, 1894 ; b. Beirut, Club : Constitutional. ton, W. Syria, 7 Feb. 1857 ; s. of Rev. Dr. Eli 23 March [Died 1915. Smith and Hetty Butler ; m. Cora Chees- 1883 one d. Educ. : was SMILES, Samuel, LL.D. ; Chevalier ot Saints man, ; graduated at Amherst Coll. 1877 ; studied at Maurice and Lazare ; retired Secretary of (Mass.), and Leipsic. Instructor in Mathe- South-Eastern Railway ; b. Haddington, Gottingen 23 Dec. 1812 father of matics at Amherst College, 1878-80, and in N.B., ; died cholera, at the Johns 1832 ; mother left with eleven children to Psychology Hopkins University, 1881-82 editor of the bring up ; m. Sarah Anne (d. 1900). Educ. : ; managing Century 1882-94. Publications : edited Haddington Burgh schools ; Edinburgh Uni- Dictionary, : of Names vc sif.y. Surgeon, Edinburgh; Hon. LL.D. Century Cyclopaedia ; Century as Atlas ; to the Century Dic- Edinburgh. Was educated a surgeon ; supplement at ; revised and passed Edinburgh ; practised for six years tionary (2 volumes) enlarged in Had'lingtonshire, but was too young for edition of the Century Dictionary (12 vol- offered umes), 1911. Recreations : golf, fishing, success ; was and obtained editorship of at gardening. Address : 33 East Seventeenth Leeds Times, Leeds ; became Secretary of Thirsk Street, New York. Club : Century, N.Y. Leeds and Hallway ; afterwards of South-Eastern then retired [Died 8 March 1913. Railway ; ; King of Servia conferred, 1897, the Knight Com- SMITH, Ven. Benjamin Frederick, M.A. ; mander's Cross of the Royal Order of St. Archdeacon of Maidstone and .Canon of Sava in of his ; appreciation literary work. b. s. Canterbury from. 1887 ; Camberwell ; Publications : Lives of George and Robert of Benjamin Smith, Great Lodge, Tun- Lives of the Stephenson ; Engineers, 5 vols. ; bridge ; m. Harriet, d. of Thomas Ward, Lire of John A Publisher and his Murray ; Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire. Educ. : Friends ; Self-Help ; Character ; Duty ; Blackheath Proprietary School ; King's Coll. Thrift ; Industrial Biography ; Invention London ; Trin. Coll. Camb. (Scholar, 17th and Life and Labour Thomas Industry ; ; Wrangler). Curate Trinity Church, Tun- Edward, Scotch Naturalist ; Robert Dick, bridge Wells, 1845-50 ; Curate in Charge and Botanist The Geologist ; Huguenots ; and Vicar of Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells, an James Nasmyth, Autobiography ; Jasmin ; 1 850-74 ; Rector of Crayford (or Earde), Life of Moore Conduct. Recrea- George ; Kent, and Rural Dean of East Dartford, tions : too old for recreation ninety-two. of 1874-88 ; Diocesan Inspector Schools, Address : 8 Pembroke Gardens, Kensington, 1850-75 ; Hon. Canon of Canterbury, 1867- W. Club : home. [ Died 16 Apr. 1904. to of 1887 ; Chaplain Archbishop Canterbury, Sir 1st 1882-96. Address : The Canter- SMILEY, Hugh Houston, Bt., er. 1903 ; Precincts, : Constitutional. J.P. and D.L. Co. Antrim ; J.P.