About Samuel Smith
Lived 1765 – 1841 (aged 75–76). Samuel Smith was a British priest.
Samuel Smith (20 September 1765, Westminster – 19 January 1841, Oxford) was an English clergyman and academic administrator at the University of Oxford.
Life The eldest son of Samuel Smith (Headmaster of Westminster School 1764–1788) and his first wife Anna Jackson, Smith was born on 20 September 1765
Smith was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on 30 May 1782, aged 16, and graduating B.A. 1786, M.A. 1789, B.D. 1797, D.D. 1808.
Smith was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1790. He held livings at Daventry (1795) and Dry Drayton (1808), prebendaries at Southwell Minster (1800) and York Minster (1801), and became Chaplain to the House of Commons (1802).
Smith resigned as Dean in 1831, accepting a prebendary at Durham Cathedral.
A daughter married the Rev. Richard Harington, DD, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford.
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Who was Samuel Smith?
Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (1765-1841)
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Samuel Smith was born in 1765 in Westminster.
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Samuel Smith died in 1841.
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Samuel Smith was a priest.
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Samuel Smith was British.
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· DBpedia: Samuel Smith (Dean of Christ Church)
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