Smith, Sydney
Smith, Sydney ( 1771 – 1845 ),educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. He lived for a time as a tutor in Edinburgh, where he became a friend of Jeffrey and Brougham with whom he founded the Edinburgh Review in 1802 . He was himself the original ‘projector’ of the Review, the object of which was to provide a voice for liberal and Whig opinion to balance the Tory Quarterly . Smith was a humane man, who campaigned vigorously, in the Review and elsewhere, against the Game Laws, transportation, prisons, slavery, and for Catholic emancipation, church reform, and many other matters. He tried for a time to restrain what he saw as Jeffrey's tendency, as editor of the Review, to ‘analyse and destroy’; but his own contributions became less frequent, then ceased altogether, as he came to feel that Jeffrey was making it ‘perilous’ for a cleric to be connected with the...
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