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3 unusual facts about Henry Hawley Smart


Henry Hawley Smart

He was the son of Major George Smart and his wife Katherine, daughter of Sir Joseph Henry Hawley, 3rd Baronet (1813–1875), a wealthy racehorse owner, bibliophile and advocate of turf reform, and his wife Sarah (née Crosbie), who came from a landed Sussex family.

Smart was married in 1883 to Alice Ellen, daughter of John Smart of Budleigh Salterton, Devon.

The Great Tontine (1881) was republished in 1984 in an anthology of four novels entitled Victorian Villainies, edited by Graham Greene with an introduction by his brother Hugh Greene.



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