Sir thomas smith biography
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Early Years and Success as a Merchant
Smythe was born about 1558, one of twelve surviving children of Thomas Smythe and his wife, Alice Judde Smythe. The elder Smythe was a prominent haberdasher and merchant whose primary property was Ostenhanger (later Westenhanger) in the county Kent. He was known as “Mr. Customer Smythe” for his position as collector of the petty anpassad at the port of London. Alice Smythe’s father, Sir Andrew Judde, was the lord mayor of London in 1550 and a founding member of one of England’s first joint-stock companies, the Muscovy Company, chartered in 1555 to trade with Russia.
Smythe might have been educated at Oxford. Like his father, he worked as a haberdasher, or a seller of men’s clothing. He quickly became a wealthy and successful merchant, and historians are sometimes unclear which Thomas Smythe, the elder or the younger, is referred to in Elizabethan-era records. (The elder Smythe died on June 7, 1591.) By 1580, the yo
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Thomas Smith (diplomat)
16th-century English scholar and diplomat (1513–1577)
Sir Thomas Smith (23 December 1513 – 12 August 1577) was an English scholar, parliamentarian and diplomat.
Early life
[edit]Born at Saffron Walden in Essex, Smith was the second son of John Smith of Walden by Agnes, daughter of John Charnock of Lancashire. The Smiths of Essex are said to be descendants of Sir Roger de Clarendon, an illegitimate son of the Black Prince. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1530,[1] and, in 1533, was appointed a public reader or professor. He lectured in the schools on natural philosophy, and on Greek in his own College. In 1540, Smith went abroad, and, after studying in France and Italy and taking a degree in law at the University of Padua, he returned to Cambridge in 1542.
He took the lead in the reform of the pronunciation of Greek, his views being universally adopted after considerable controver
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Sir Thomas Smith, 1st Baronet, of Stratford Place
British surgeon
Thomas Smith | |
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| Born | (1833-03-23)23 March 1833 Blackheath, England |
| Died | 1 October 1909(1909-10-01) (aged 76) London, England |
| Education | Tonbridge School |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
| Spouse | Ann Eliza (m. ; died ) |
Sir Thomas Smith, 1st Baronet, KCVO, FRCS (23 March 1833 – 1 October 1909) was a British surgeon.
Life
[edit]Smith was born in Blackheath, the sixth son of Benjamin Smith, a London goldsmith, by his wife Susannah, daughter of Apsley Pellatt.[1] He was educated at Tonbridge School between 1844 and 1850. In 1851 he became an apprentice to Sir James Paget and in August 1854 he became House Surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital.[2] He subsequently worked at St Bartholomew's Hospital and from 1858 to 1861 Smith was Assistant Surgeon at the Great Northern