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fruit of fifteen years' labour ; and in the same year he received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford. In 1875 he completed his large atlas of " Biblical and Classical Geography," forming a companion volume to his Biblicsd and Classical Diction- aries.

SMITH, The Eight Hon. William Henry, M.P., son of Mr. William Henry Smith, of the Strand, London, and Bournemouth, Hampshire, bookseller, publisher, and news-agent, was born in Duke Street, Grosvenor Square, London, June 24, 1825. He was educated at the Grammar School, Tavistock, and became, in due course, a part- ner in the well-known firm in the Strand. In July, 18G5, he unsuc- cessfully contested Westminster in the Conservative interest, but his candidature was renewed with suc- cess in Nov., 1868, when he defeated Mr. John Stuart Mill. He has continued to sit for Westminster down to the present time, having been returned at the head of the poll in 1874. He was Finan- cial Secretary of the Treasury from Feb., 1874, till Aug. 8, 1877, when he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and a Cabinet Minister, in succession to the late Mr. Ward Hunt. He went out of office on the retirement of the Conservatives in April, 1880. Mr. Smith was a member of the first and second School Boards for London, his retirement in 1874 being occasioned by the pressure of official duties. The University of Oxford conferred on him the hono- rary degree of D.C.L. in 1879 ; and he was presented with the freedom of the Stationers' Company in 1880. He is a magistrate for Hertford- shire and the Liberty of St. Alban's, and a member of the Council of King's College, London.

SMITH, William Bobbbtson, M.A., LL.D., was born at Eeig, Aber- deenshire, Nov. 8, 1846, and edu- cated privately,, and then at Aber-

deen University, the New College, Edinburgh, and the Universities of Bonn and Gottingen. He was ap- pointed Professor of Hebrew in the Free Church College, Aberdeen, in 1870, and was removed from this office by an extraordinary act of the General Assembly in 1881, on ac- count of his critical views as to the Old Testament, published in the " Encyclopaedia Britannica " and elsewhere. Since then he has been associated with Prof. Baynes in editing the " EncyclopsBdia Britan- nica." From 1868 to 1870 he was assistant to the Professor of Physics at Edinburgh. He is a member of the Old Testament Revision Com- pany. Professor Eobertson Smith travelled in Arabia, 1879-80, and described his journey in letters to the Scotsman newspaper. These have been characterised by Ndldeke as one of the most instructive writings which exist on the subject of Arabia. In Jan., 1883, Professor Eobertson Smith accepted the Lord Almoner's Professorship of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, vacant by the death of Professor Palmer. He has contributed to scientific journals and societies ; and has published " The Old Testa- ment in the Jewish Church," 1880 ; and " The Prophets of Israel, and their Place in History to the close of the Eighth Century, b.c," 1882.

SMYTHIES, The Eioht Eev. Charles Alan, Bishop of Central Africa, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1867; M.A., 1878). He was curate of Great Marlow from 1869-72, and of Eoath, near Cardiff, from the latter year till 1880, when he was pre- sented to the vicarage of Eoath. In Oct., 1883, he was appointed Bishop of Central Africa, in suc- cession to the late Dr. Steere, and was consecrated in St. Paul's Cathe- dral on Nov. 30.

SODOE AND MAN, Bishop op. (See Hill, Db.)

SOLLY, EDV7ABD, F.E.S., born in London^ Oct. 11^ 1819, and edu-