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See also: British geologist, was See also: born at Naples on the 26th of See also: August 1817, his See also: father, See also: Admiral W
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See also: Smyth (1788-1865), being at the See also: time engaged in the See also: Admiralty Survey of the Mediterranean
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He was educated at See also: Westminster and See also: Bedford schocls, and after-wards at Trinity See also: College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1839
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Having gained a travelling scholarship he spent more than four years in See also: Europe, See also: Asia Minor, See also: Syria and See also: Egypt, paying See also: great See also: attention to See also: mineralogy and See also: mining, examining coalfields, metalliferous mines and See also: salt-See also: works, and making acquaintance with many distinguished geologists and mineralogists
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On his return to See also: England in 1844 he was appointed mining geologist on the See also: Geological Survey, and in 1851 lecturer at the School of Mines, a See also: post which he held until 1881 when he relinquished the chair of mineralogy but continued as professor of mining
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In later years he became chief See also: mineral inspector to the Office of Woods and Forests, and also to the Duchy of See also: Cornwall
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He was elected F.R.S. in 1858
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He became president of the Geological Society of See also: London in 1866-1868, and in 1879 he was chairman of a Royal Commission appointed to inquire into accidents in mines, the See also: work in connexion with which continued until 1886
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He contributed sundry papers to the See also: Memoirs of the Geological Survey, the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society and the Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall
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He was author also of A See also: Year with the See also: Turks (1854), and of A See also: Treatise on See also: Coal and Coal-mining (1867)
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He was knighted in 1887
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He died in London on the 19th of See also: June 189o, and was buried at St Erth, not far from his country home at See also: Marazion in Cornwall
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A portrait and some reminiscences of W
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W
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Smyth will be found in the Memoir of See also: Sir A
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See also: Ramsay (1895), by Sir A
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