Smith Goldwin

Smith, GOLDWIN, was born in 1823, and, coming up to Oxford from Eton, carried off all the chief University prizes, and was elected to a fellowship at University College, and afterwards to a honorary fellowship at Oriel. He acted as secretary to both University Commissions, and to that on Popular Education. In 1858 he was made Regius Professor of Modern History, holding the chaiir until 1866. During the War of Secession in Amenca he stood forth as a fervent Abolitionist, and at the end of the struggle went on a lecturing tour through the States, writing, on his return, two books dealing with the political relations of England and America. In 1868 he accepted a professorship of history in Cornell University, New York, but three years later settled at Toronto; Canada, took an active interest in the Toronto University, and edited several papers.