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10 unusual facts about Sydney Smith


George Edwin Thomson

His tally included five enemy planes destroyed; he shared one of these triumphs with fellow ace Sydney Smith.

George Hudson

The mania for railway speculation was at its height, and no man was more courted than the "railway king", a name conferred upon him by Sydney Smith.

Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram

His mother was a lady of brilliance and charm who was friendly with such men as Sydney Smith, Lord Brougham, Walter Savage Landor and Charles Young.

Isocracy

The first recorded use of the term was by the Reverend Sydney Smith in 1845, where opposition was expressed to the idea of equal rule for "all units of society"; Smith noted that the young should not have the same authority as the old and challenged isocrats to support voting and political rights for women, which was considered an extremist position at the time.

Jane Martha St. John

Her brother Michael, 21 years her senior had married and her brother William, 18 years older than his sister, was continuing his education at Eton and at Edinburgh with his tutor Sydney Smith, leaving her as the only child at home.

Rhyming recipe

The poem was written by Sydney Smith, an English writer and clergyman, who has been described as "a man of restless ingenuity and activity," and who is also known for being the founder of the Edinburgh Review.

Richard FitzPatrick

Lady Evelyn bore her second husband three daughters: Henrietta, who married George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick; Caroline Maria, who married Robert Percy Smith, brother of writer Sydney Smith and Elizabeth who never married but became companion to her niece, Caroline Fox.

Robert Percy Smith

Smith was eldest son of Robert Smith, and brother of the writer and clergyman Sydney Smith.

William Dougal Christie

Only Sydney Smith's witty barbs are mentioned on the other side of the argument.

William Lyttelton, 3rd Baron Lyttelton

Sydney Smith's Letters of Peter Plymley were for a time ascribed to Lyttelton before their authorship was known.