SIR

See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

THOMAS

See also:

• SMITH
• SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
• SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
• SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
• SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
• SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
• SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
• SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
• SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
• SMITH, G
• SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
• SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
• SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
• SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
• SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
• SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
• SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
• SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
• SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
• SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
• SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
• SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
• SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
• SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
• SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
• SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
• SIR THOMAS SMITH (1513-1577)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
• SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
• SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
• SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
• SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)

SMITH (1513-1577)  , English scholar and diplomatist, was born at Saffron Walden in Essex on the 23rd of December 1513 . He became a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1530, and in 1533 was appointed a public reader or professor . He lectured in the schools on natural philosophy, and on Greek in his own rooms . In 1540 Smith went abroad, and, after studying in France and Italy and taking a degree of law at Padua, returned to Cambridge in 1542 . He now took the lead in the reform of the pronunciation of Greek, his views after considerable controversy being universally adopted . He and his friend Sir John Cheke were the great classical scholars of the time in England . In January 1543/4 he was appointed first regius professor of civil law . He was vice-chancellor of the university the same year, and became chancellor to the bishop of Ely, by whom he was ordained priest in 1546 . In 1547 he became provost of Eton and dean of Carlisle . He early adopted Protestant views, a fact which brought him into prominence when Edward VI. came to the throne . During Somerset's protectorate he entered public life and was made a secretary of state, being sent on an important diplomatic mission to Brussels . In 1548 he was knighted .

On the

accession of Mary he was deprived of all his offices, but in the succeeding reign was prominently employed in public affairs . He became a member of parliament, and was sent in .1562 as ambassador to France, where he remained till 1566; and in 1572 he again went to France in the same capacityfor a short time . He remained one of Elizabeth's most trusted Protestant counsellors, being appointed .in 1572 chancellor of ,the order of the Garter and a secretary of state . He died on the 12th of August 1577 . In 166, the grandson of bi3 brother George was created a baronet, and from him the title has descended to the Smith family of the present day . His best-known work, entitled De Republica Anglarum: the Maner of Government or Policie of the Realme of England, was published posthumously in 1583, and passed through many editions . His epistle to Gardiner, De recta et emendata linguae Graecae pronunciatione, was printed at Paris in 1568; the same volume includes his dialogue De recta et emendata linguae Anglicanae scriptione . A number of his letters from France are in the foreign state papers . See A . F . Pollard's article in the Diet . Nat .

Biog . A life by

Strype was published in 1698 (Oxford edition, 1820) .