William Smith (1727-1803) was a Scottish-born American educator and churchman whose innovative educational ideas and leadership of the Philadelphia Academy during its formative years significantly inf...
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William Smith, Jr., of New York, a jurist and politician, wrote polemical essays and political pamphlets, helped to codify New York's laws, and authored the best contemporary history of his native pro...
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William Smith reaped the ambiguous reward of the person who straddles two cultures. Loyal to the literary and political traditions of his native British Isles and a dedicated Anglican, Smith was respo...
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William Smith is the only Elizabethan poet to dedicate a collection of his verse to fellow-poet Edmund Spenser. This dedication and one to Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, seem to place Smith in exa...
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William Smith
William Smith