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 * ✅✅Aaron Smith (conspirator)
 * Aaron Smith (seaman)
 * Adam Smith
 * Albert Richard Smith
 * Alexander Smith (biographer)
 * ✅Alexander Smith (bishop, born 1684)
 * ✅Alexander Smith
 * ✅Alexander Smith (poet)
 * Sir Andrew Smith
 * Anker Smith
 * Aquilla Smith
 * Archibald Smith
 * Arthur Smith
 * Augustus John Smith
 * Barbara Leigh Smith
 * ✅Benjamin Smith
 * ✅Benjamin Smith
 * ✅Bernard Smith
 * ✅Charles Smith
 * Charles Smith
 * ✅Charles Smith
 * Charles Smith
 * Sir Charles Felix Smith
 * ✅Charles Hamilton Smith
 * Charles Harriot Smith
 * Charles John Smith
 * Charles Roach Smith
 * Charlotte Smith
 * Colvin Smith
 * ✅Edmund Smith
 * Edward Smith
 * ✅Edward Smith
 * Elizabeth Smith
 * Erasmus Smith
 * Francis Smith
 * Francis Pettit Smith
 * Frederick William Smith
 * Gabriel Smith
 * George Smith
 * ✅George Smith
 * George Smith
 * ✅✅George Smith (historian)
 * ✅George Smith
 * ✅George Smith
 * ✅George Smith
 * ✅George Smith George Smith (1824-1901), publisher, and founder and proprietor of the Dictionary of National Biography; joined in 1838 the firm of Smith & Elder, publishers and East India agents, of 65 Cornhill, London, which his father had founded in partnership with Alexander Elder in 1816, soon after coming in youth to London from his native town of Elgin. In 1843 Smith took charge of some of the fl rm's publishing operations, and on his father's death in 1846 became sole head of the firm. Under his control the business quickly grew in both the India agency and publishing directions. The chief authors whose work- Ikpublished in his early career were John Ruskin, Charlotte Bronte, whoseJane Eyrehe issued in 1848. and W. M. Thackeraj whoseEsmondhe brought out in 1851. In 1853 he took a partner, H. S. King, and, after weathering the storm of the Indian Mutiny, started in 1869 * The Oornhill Magazine with Thackeray as editor, and numerous leading authors and artists as contributors. In 1865 Smith founded the Pall Mall Gazette a London evening newspaper of independent character and literary quality, which remained his property till 1880. In 186H Indissolved partnership with King, leaving him to carry on the India agency branch of the old firm's business, and soon extended in many ways, publication of medical book His chief authors now included Robert Browning. Matthew Arnold, (Sir) Stephen, mid Miss Tlinckera were intimate prr-omil f n.nd*. Mennwhlfc to with great snooess in many meroantUe venture  the purchase, ss ith tWO OtOCrt, in 1873, of tto  - 1-I 1882 togaVe proof of his,  ''     Le"coyjd 7 - I7 * X ****    Stephen and Mr 100U), with three  portrait was pail.  posthumously by tto    I,-:.,,,;--.  tary volumes (1901). Smith's  -.0. F. Watte, RJL, 1876. and John Collier, 1901. A tablet to
 * George Charles Smith
 * Gerard Edward Smith
 * Harry George Wakelyn Smith
 * Henry Smith
 * Henry Smith
 * Henry John Stephen Smith
 * Horatio Smith
 * Hugh Smith (physician)
 * Hugh Smith (physician, 1736?–1789)
 * Humphrey Smith
 * ✅James Smith (priest)
 * James Smith (Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District)
 * ✅James Smith (writer)
 * ✅James Smith (inventor)
 * ✅James Smith of Jordanhill
 * James Smith (merchant)
 * ✅James Edward Smith
 * ✅James Elimalet Smith
 * James Hicks Smith
 * ✅Jeremiah Smith (Royal Navy officer)
 * Jeremiah Smith (clergyman)
 * Jeremiah Smith (schoolmaster)
 * Jeremiah Finch Smith
 * John Smith (diplomatist)
 * ✅John Smith
 * John Smith (divine)
 * ✅John Smith (explorer)
 * ✅John Smith (antiquarian born 1567)
 * ✅Sir John Smith (banneret)
 * ✅John Smith (Platonist)
 * John Smith (writer on trade)
 * John Smith (physician)
 * John Smith (philomath)
 * ✅✅John Smith (priest, born 1659)
 * ✅John Smith (English poet)
 * ✅John Smith (Chancellor of the Exchequer)
 * ✅✅John Smith (judge)
 * ✅John Smith (engraver, born 1652)
 * John Smith (writer)
 * John Smith (artist)
 * John Smith (antiquary)
 * ✅John Smith (missionary)
 * John Warwick Smith
 * ✅Sir John Smith (British Army officer, born 1754)
 * John Smith (1797–1861)
 * John Abel Smith
 * John Chaloner Smith
 * John Christopher Smith
 * John Gordon Smith
 * Sir John Mark Frederick Smith
 * John Orrin Smith
 * John Prince Smith (lawyer)
 * John Prince Smith (economist)
 * John Pye Smith
 * John Raphael Smith
 * John Russell Smith
 * John Sidney Smith
 * John Stafford Smith
 * John Thomas Smith (draughtsman)
 * John Thomas Smith (British Army officer)
 * ✅✅John William Smith (legal writer)
 * ✅✅Joseph Smith (academic)
 * Joseph Smith (collector)
 * Joseph Smith (army officer)
 * Joshua Toulmin Smith
 * Josiah William Smith
 * Sir Lionel Smith
 * Matthew Smith (Royalist)
 * Matthew Smith (informer)
 * Michael William Smith
 * Miles Smith
 * Sir Montagu Edward Smith
 * Percy Guillemard Llewellin Smith
 * Philip Smith
 * Pleasance Smith
 * Richard Smith (Regius Professor)
 * ✅Richard Smith (bishop)
 * Richard Smith (book-collector)
 * Richard Baird Smith
 * Richard John Smith
 * Robert Smith (schoolmaster)
 * ✅Robert Smith (mathematician)
 * ✅Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington
 * Robert Angus Smith
 * Robert Archibald Smith
 * Robert Henry Soden Smith
 * Sir Robert Murdoch Smith
 * Robert Payne Smith
 * Robert Percy Smith
 * Robert Vernon Smith
 * Samuel Smith (writer)
 * Samuel Smith (divine)
 * ✅Sir Sidney Smith
 * Stephen Smith (Quaker)
 * ✅Stephen Catterson Smith
 * ✅Sydney Smith
 * Theophilus Ahijah Smith
 * Theyre Townsend Smith
 * ✅Sir Thomas Smith (diplomat)
 * Sir Thomas Smith (English judge)
 * ✅Thomas Smith
 * ✅Thomas Smith (English soldier)
 * ✅Thomas Smith (bishop)
 * Thomas Smith (renegade)
 * ✅Thomas Smith (scholar)
 * ✅Thomas Smith (Royal Navy officer)
 * ✅Thomas Smith (Derby)
 * Thomas Assheton Smith
 * Thomas Barry Cusack-Smith
 * Thomas South Wood Smith
 * Walter Smith
 * Wentworth Smith
 * ✅William Smith
 * ✅William Smith (poet)
 * William Smith (herald)
 * William Smith (author)
 * William Smith (Quaker)
 * William Smith (English actor)
 * ✅William Smith (surveyor)
 * William Smith (antiquary)
 * William Smith (artist)
 * ✅William Smith (scholar)
 * ✅William 'Gentleman' Smith
 * ✅William Smith (abolitionist)
 * ✅William Smith (geologist)
 * William Smith (printseller)
 * ✅William Smith (lexicographer)
 * William Smith (translator)
 * Sir William Cusac Smith
 * William Henry Smith
 * William Henry Smith
 * William Robertson Smith
 * William Sidney Smith
 * William Tyler Smith
 * Willoughby Smith
 * James George Smith-Neill
 * Harriet Constance Smithson
 * Sir Hugh Smithson
 * James Smithson
 * Caspar Smitz
 * James Smollett
 * Tobias George Smollett
 * Charles Piazzi Smyth
 * Edward Smyth
 * ✅James Carmichael Smyth (physician)
 * ✅Sir James Carmichael-Smyth, 1st Baronet
 * John Smyth (sculptor)
 * ✅John Rowland Smyth
 * John Talfourd Smyth
 * Leicester Smyth
 * Patrick James Smyth
 * Richard Smyth
 * Robert Brough Smyth
 * Warington Wilkinson Smyth
 * William Smyth (historian)
 * William Henry Smyth
 * ✅✅David Smythe
 * Emily Anne Smythe
 * George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe
 * Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe
 * Percy Ellen Frederick William Smythe
 * Sidney Stafford Smythe
 * William James Smythe
 * Charles Alan Smythies
 * Thomas Snagge
 * Andrew Snape
 * Edmund Snape
 * William Snatt
 * Hannah Snell
 * John Snell
 * Thomas Snelling
 * John Snetzler
 * John Snow
 * William Parker Snow
 * John Snowden
 * Henry Soames
 * George Soane
 * John Soane
 * Gerard Soest
 * Daniel Charles Solander
 * Moses Solanus
 * William Sole
 * Edward Solly (chemist)
 * Samuel Solly
 * Thomas Solly
 * Thomas Solme
 * Thomas Solme
 * ✅Heinrich Maastricht Solms
 * Abraham Solomon
 * Saint Solus
 * Robert Some
 * ✅Thomas Some (divine)
 * Henry Somer
 * John Somer
 * Paul van Somer
 * Lawrence Somercote
 * Robert Somercote
 * Somerled
 * Edmund Sigismund Somers
 * George Somers
 * John Somers
 * Robert Somers
 * Richard Somersham
 * Dukes of Somerset
 * Earls of Somerset
 * Charles Somerset
 * Edward Somerset
 * Edward Somerset

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 * ✅Lord Edward Somerset
 * ✅Lord Fitzroy James Somerset
 * ✅Lord Granville Charles Henry Somerset
 * ✅Henry Somerset
 * ✅Henry Somerset
 * ✅Henry Somerset
 * ✅John Somerset
 * ✅Poulett George Henry Somerset
 * ✅Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset
 * ✅William Somerset

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 * ✅Alexander Somerville
 * Alexander Neil Somerville
 * Andrew Somerville
 * Hugh Somerville
 * James Somerville
 * James Somerville
 * John Somerville
 * ✅John Southey Somerville
 * Mary Somerville
 * Thomas Somerville (historian)
 * ✅William Somerville
 * ✅William Somerville (physician)
 * Sir William Meredyth Somerville
 * William Sommers
 * ✅William Somner
 * Sir George Sondes
 * William Sonmans
 * William Soone
 * John Soowthern
 * ✅Thomas Sopwith (geologist)

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 * Thomas Sorocold
 * Charles Sotheby
 * Samuel Sotheby
 * Samuel Leigh Sotheby
 * William Sotheby
 * Seth Sothel
 * Simon Sotherey
 * Edward Askew Sothern
 * Lytton Edward Sothern
 * Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron-Estcourt

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 * John Sotherton
 * Thomas Soulemont
 * John de Soulis
 * Sir James South
 * John Flint South
 * Robert South
 * Duke of Southampton
 * Earls of Southampton
 * Baron Southampton
 * John Southcote
 * Joanna Southcott
 * Henry Southern (diplomat)
 * John Southern
 * Thomas Southerne
 * Earls of Southesk
 * Caroline Anne Southey
 * Henry Herbert Southey
 * Robert Southey
 * Henry Southgate
 * Richard Southgate (clergyman)
 * Simon Southrey
 * Kings of South Saxons
 * Edward Southwell
 * Nathanael Southwell
 * Richard Southwell
 * ✅Robert Southwell (sheriff)
 * ✅Robert Southwell (Jesuit)
 * Robert Southwell
 * ✅Robert Southwell (diplomat)
 * Thomas Southwell
 * Thomas Southwell
 * William Southwell
 * George Brettingham Sowerby
 * George Brettingham Sowerby
 * Henry Sowerby
 * James Sowerby
 * James de Carle Sowerby
 * John Edward Sowerby
 * Alexis Benoît Soyer
 * Elizabeth Emma Soyer
 * Samuel Spalding
 * William Spalding
 * Thomas Spark
 * Edward Sparke
 * Joseph Sparke
 * ✅Thomas Sparke 312
 * William Sparke 313sub
 * ✅Anthony Sparrow
 * John Sparrow (Behmenist)
 * Robert Spearman
 * Robert Spears
 * James Spedding
 * William Speechly
 * Adolphus Speed
 * John Speed
 * John Speed
 * John Speed
 * Samuel Speed
 * Samuel Speed
 * Thomas Speght
 * ✅✅George Speke
 * ✅Hugh Speke
 * ✅John Hanning Speke
 * Clement Spelman
 * Edward Spelman
 * Sir Henry Spelman
 * Sir John Spelman
 * Sir John Spelman
 * Benjamin Edward Spence
 * Elizabeth Isabella Spence
 * ✅✅George Spence (MP)
 * James Spence
 * Joseph Spence
 * Thomas Spence
 * William Spence
 * Aubrey George Spencer
 * ✅Sir Augustus Almeric Spencer
 * Sir Brent Spencer
 * 'Buck' Spencer
 * Charles Spencer
 * Charles Spencer
 * ✅Lord Charles Spencer
 * Dorothy Spencer
 * George Spencer
 * George Spencer
 * George John Spencer
 * George Trevor Spencer
 * Spencer
 * Henry le Spencer
 * Henry Spencer
 * Henry Spencer
 * Sir John Spencer
 * John Spencer
 * John Spencer (Jesuit)
 * John Spencer (Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)
 * John Charles Spencer John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp and third Earl Spencer ( 1782-1 845), eldest son of George John Spenoer, second earl Spenoer; left in childhood to the care of servants: went to Harrow, 1790: became devotedly attached to field-sport*; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1802; his jlebt? and clumsy manners a source of embarrassment to his parents, who tried In vain to interest him in foreign art and manners; became M.P. for Okehampton, 1804, and supported Pitt: M.P., St. Albans, 1806, Northamptonshire, 18O6-34; rarely spoke in parliament, devoting himself to the Pytebley hunt, prize fights, and races: drawn into active politics by Ins admiration for Fox; joined the advanced whig party, voting with ! Whitbread, Mackintosh, Kouiilly, and Brougham; from 1816 to 1820 studied economic history and working-class grievance?, supporting Huskixson and even Joseph Hume; became in 1830 leader of the whig opposition in the Commons, and on Wellington's resignation in December dnncellor of the exchequer and leader in the lower house un.i.T Karl Grey; behaved with signal Industry and honesty of purpose; returned to office with an increased whig majority, 1831, and showed his real for the Reform Bill by the vigour with which he rallied his followers on its rejection by the lords in October; resigned again in May 1832, but had to return to office in a few days, and iw the Reform Bill paw the lords on 4 June 1832: de.r.~--l by the intrigue* of O'Connell, 1833-4: lost influence at tin- time of the rise of Peel; he retained office reluctantly till his succession to the earldom, 1834; withdrew with satisfaction to country pursuits, emerging only in 1841 to pronounce in favour of the repeal of the corn laws. Almost devoid of political ambition, he stepped at one stroke to the leadership of the House of Commons, and won absolute trust from friends and opponents alike li.y his truthfulness and integrity. Macaulay raid of liitn that he hadthe temper of Lord North with the principles of Romilly.*     only son of Henry naenrer. first earl of by his wife. Dorothy Bacbarisaft see SPKXCKR, DOROTHY: born at Paris; succeeds title, 1643; studied In Southern Europe and  ,;.,. V:,,;.;,......:....;...  court to Charles II's mtotreseaa, obtained political emi to Madrid aad    ptoMfl p  uriy in 1679, upon payment of jouo., son as secretary of state for the nor  .l.:t.:..M!... n.x- sJbSJB  -- - - -- --- a --- T. t__    northern department;    ry 1681 X    with t  on which be recanted, made abject snhmlealnii to. duke of York, and regained his place la 1663. striving especially to oust Halifax and Rochester from favour: as a strenuous supporter of the royal prerogative, no Iras than as a subtle contriver of expedtetaVoommended hte self to James U on his nceession in 1686, and showed Ma skill by the way in which be avoided being oomprwiilaU by Moumouth; bis unscrupulous Intrigues against hia chief rival with Jamea II, Rochester, consummated by his throwing in his lot with the victorious catholic party, and by his gaining the complete confidence of James IPs queen; supported the repeal of the Test Act, the recall *i t!:.- three British regiments from Holland, and the committal of the seven bishops; renounced protexUntbm. 1687, but was disturbed by the internal fends of the catholic party, and was all the time maid m? overtures to the Prince of Orange: was sceptical of the success of an invasion, bat flattered himself that be might act as mediator between    rapacious, and moat unscrupulous of Wage;
 * Robert Spencer
 * Sir Robert Cavendish Spencer
 * Thomas Spencer
 * Thomas Spencer
 * William George Spencer
 * William Robert Spencer
 * Lily Spender
 * James Spens (diplomat)
 * ✅✅John Spens, Lord Condie
 * Thomas de Spens
 * Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), poet: elder son of John Spenser, described as a gentleman and a journeyman in the art of clotlimakiug; born probably,. 1552, iu East Smithfleld, London, whither his father had migrated from the Burnley district of Lancashire; his hereditary connection with this district confirmed by the dialect employed in the Shephcard's Calendar and other early pieces; educated at Merchant Taylors* School; matriculated sizar from Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, May, 1569; at Cambridge; studied Latin, Greek, French, and Italian assiduously, making influential friends; M.A., 1576; while still at Cambridge, contributed fourteen sonnet Visions from I)u Bellay to an edifyingTheatre for Worldlings 1568; obtained in 1578. through his college friend, Gabriel Harvey, a place in Leicester's household; became, through Leicester, acquainted with Sir Philip Sidney; with Sidney, Dyer, and Drant formed a literary club styled the Areopagus; while under Leicester's roof and in love with a fairRosalind(probably a yeoman's daughterX made experiments, at the instance of Harvey and Edward Kirke, in classical measures; published (with archaic glossary suggested partly by Kirkc) the Shcpheard's Calendar(twelve eclogues), 1579, and began the* Faerie Queene his Shep hoard's Calendar enthusiastically received; was appointed secretary to Arthur Grey, fourteenth lord Grey de Wilton, then going to Ireland as lord deputy, 1580; was well rewarded for his work in Ireland, which remained his home until within a month of his death; left the neighiKmrhood of Dublin for Kilcolman Castle upon an estate lie had acquired near Cork, 1688; occupied himself with l:t-rary work, writing his elegy on Antrophel(Sidney) in 1586, and preparing for the press his Faerie Queene three book? of which were entrusted to the printer on the poet's visit to London, November 1689; reluctantly returned to Kilcolman, 1591, and pennedColin Clouts come home again* (printed, 1695): by the reputation of the Faerie Queeneled the publisher Ponsonby to collect IU minor verse ami jutxnilli, in part rewritten, as Complaints, containing Kimdric small poems of the worlds vanltie 1590; married (1694) Elizabeth Boyle, whom he bad wooul in his Amon-tti and celebrated the marriage in hU splendid Epithalamion (the two printed together. lo5); published the second instalment of three books of   theFaerie Queeneand Foure Hymnc.- l'96, being in London for the purpose at Essex House, where he wrote his Prothalamion and also his well-informed, though one-sided, prose View of the Present State of Ireland; returned to Kilcolman, depressed both in mind and health, 1697; his castle of Kilcolman burned, October 1698, in a sudden insurrection of the natives, i-hieliy NVills, under the sntran Earl of Desmond, on which, with his wife and four children, he was compelled to flee for refuge to Cork; sent over to England early in December 1598 with a despatch from the president of Munster to the government in London: died in distress, if not actual poverty, at a lodging in King Street, Westminster, a month later; buried near his favourite Chaucer in Westminster Abbey. Four portraits of him are extant. His main achievement, the moral and allegorical, but pre-eminently pictorial, 4 Faerie Queene was the only great poem that had been written in England since Chaucer died. As a scholar ranking near Milton and Gray, as a metrist and inventor of the Spenserian stanza, and as the poet's poet his high position and influence iu our poetic literature cannot be overestimated.
 * John Spenser
 * John Sperling
 * Henry Spicer
 * Alexander Spiers
 * Henry Spigurnel
 * Daniel Spillan
 * James Spiller
 * John Spilsbury
 * Jonathan Spilsbury
 * Maria Spilsbury
 * Nathaniel Spinckes
 * John Spittlehouse
 * Josiah Spode
 * Reginald Spofforth
 * Charles Spooner
 * Charles Spooner
 * William Charles Spooner
 * Richard Sporley
 * Alexander Spottiswood
 * James Spottiswood
 * John Spottiswood
 * John Spottiswood
 * John Spottiswood
 * Sir Robert Spottiswood
 * Arthur Cole Spottiswoode
 * William Spottiswoode
 * Sir Edward Spragge
 * Thomas Sprat
 * James Spratt
 * Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt
 * Aloys Sprenger
 * Joshua Sprigg
 * William Sprigg (pamphleteer)
 * Tom Spring
 * Thomas Spring-Rice
 * John Sprint
 * John Sprint
 * George Sprott (conspirator)
 * Thomas Sprott (chronicler)
 * Richard Spruce
 * Henry Harpur Spry
 * Richard Spry
 * Charles Haddon Spurgeon
 * Barons Spynie
 * ✅Edward Squire
 * John Spurgin
 * William Spurstowe
 * John Squire
 * Samuel Squire
 * William Squire
 * Edward Stack
 * Richard Stack
 * John Stackhouse
 * Thomas Stackhouse
 * Thomas Stackhouse
 * Thomas Stackhouse
 * Marquis of Stafford
 * Viscount Stafford
 * Anthony Stafford
 * Edmund de Stafford
 * Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham
 * Edward Stafford (diplomat)
 * ✅Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
 * ✅Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford
 * Hugh de Stafford
 * Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham
 * Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon
 * ✅John Stafford (bishop)
 * John Stafford (divine)
 * Ralph de Stafford
 * Sir Richard Stafford
 * Richard Stafford
 * Richard Anthony Stafford
 * Thomas Stafford (rebel)
 * Thomas Stafford (author)
 * William Stafford (conspirator)
 * William Stafford (author)
 * John Stagg (poet)
 * Nicholas Staggins
 * Sir Richard Stainer
 * Sir Thomas Staines
 * Henry Tibbats Stainton
 * Earls of Stair
 * Viscount Stair
 * William Grant Stairs
 * William Staley
 * John Stalham
 * Earls of Stamford
 * William Stamford
 * William Stampe
 * John Stanbridge
 * John Stanbury
 * Arthur Standish
 * Frank Hall Standish
 * Henry Standish
 * John Standish
 * Myles Standish
 * Clarkson Stanfield
 * George Clarkson Stanfield
 * James Field Stanfield
 * Charles Stanford
 * William Stanford (judge)
 * Christopher Stanger