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Loan 96 RLF 1/1795
Mr George Henry Smith

Mr George Henry Smith

Applications

2 (2 successful)

Date period

Aug 1854-18 May 1871

Awards

  • 5 Jul 1869 (£40)
  • 4 Jul 1870 (£30)

Other author name(s)

 - 

Author's career

  • Editor of John Bull
  • Postmaster of Jersey
  • Leader writer for the Morning Herald

Author's works published

Various : Non-Fiction, Politics, History, Translations, Journalism

Also named in file

 - 

Timeline

1869

Application Form, George Henry Smith

5 Jul 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/1
 

George Henry Smith to the Committee of the Literary Fund

5 Jul 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/2
 

Henry Fawcett to the Committee of the Literary Fund

11 Jun 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/3
 

Henry Dunning Macleod to George Henry Smith

17 Jun 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/4
 

James Mouat to George Henry Smith

24 Jun 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/5
 

Thomas Wade to the Committee of the Literary Fund

28 Jun 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/6
 

John Noble to the Committee of the Literary Fund

1 Jul 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/7
 

C F Macdonald to George Macdonald

1 Jul 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/8
 

George Macdonald to Octavian Blewitt

4 Jul 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/9
 

Receipt, signed George Henry Smith

19 Jul 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/10
 

George Henry Smith to the Committee of the Literary Fund

20 Jul 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/11
1870

Application Form, George Henry Smith

4 Jul 1870
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/12
 

George Henry Smith to the Committee of the Literary Fund

6 Jul 1870
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/13
 

George Henry Smith to Octavian Blewitt

6 Jul 1870
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/14
 

Adela Mouat, on behalf of James Mouat, to the Committee of the Literary Fund

Jun 1870
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/15
 

George Macdonald to the Committee of the Literary Fund

30 Jun 1870
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/16
 

George Macdonald to Octavian Blewitt

30 Jun 1870
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/17
 

(Henry) Charlton Bastian to the Committee of the Literary Fund

2 Jul 1870
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/18
 

John Noble to the Committee of the Literary Fund

4 Jul 1870
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/19
 

C F Macdonald to the Committee of the Literary Fund

4 Jul 1870
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/20
 

Henry Fawcett to the Committee of the Literary Fund

5 Jul 1870
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/21
 

Receipt, signed George Henry Smith

14 Jul 1870
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/22
 

George Henry Smith to the Committee of the Literary Fund

16 Jul 1870
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/23
 

George Henry Smith to Octavian Blewitt

16 Jul 1870
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/24
 

Schedule of payments to George Henry Smith

14 Jul 1870-15 Dec 1870
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/25
1854

Press cuttings – details of George Henry Smith having murdered his wife at Rochester in Aug 1854 while ‘of unsound mind’, of his being committed to Kent Country Asylum and notices from the Daily Telegraph, the Morning Post and others on his suicide in May 1871

Aug 1854-18 May 1871
Loan 96 RLF 1/1795/26
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