William Smith

1808 - 1876

This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.

Biographical notes

Printseller.

No known connections with slavery.

No known connections with abolition.

Donor: presented in 1856: NG273 (now at Tate, N00273).

E. I. Carlyle and M. Guyatt, 'Smith, William', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/25933
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History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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