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Born June 3, 1771 • England
Died February 22, 1845 (aged 73) • London • England
Founder “The Edinburgh Review, or The Critical Journal”

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Sydney Smith, detail of an oil painting by H.P. Briggs; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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