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Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
Smith, Sydney. A celebrated English wit, clergyman, and essayist; born at Woodford, Essex, June 3, 1771; died in London, Feb. 22, 1845. He was one of the founders of the Edinburgh Review. His writings comprise articles contributed to the Edinburgh Review and republished in book form in 1839; ‘Peter Plymley’s Letters’ (1807–08), in favor of Catholic emancipation; ‘Three Letters to Archdeacon Singleton on the Ecclesiastical Commission’ (1837–39); ‘Letters’; ‘Papers’; etc. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).