Person    | Male  Born 3/6/1771  Died 22/2/1845

Reverend Sydney Smith

Categories: Literature

Wit, for example "I never read a book before reviewing
it; it prejudices a man so."
Born Woodford, London. Died at home in Green Street, London.

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Reverend Sydney Smith

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St George's, Bloomsbury

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