About Thomas Smibert
Lived 1810 – 1854 (aged 44). Thomas Smibert was a poet, writer and journalist.
Thomas Smibert (1810–1854) was a Scottish journalist, writer and poet.
Life He was born on 8 February 1810 at Peebles, where his father, Thomas Smibert, a leather-merchant, was provost (1808–11); his mother's name was Janet Tait. Educated there, he was apprenticed to a druggist, and then qualified as a surgeon at Edinburgh University.
Smibert set up as a surgeon at Innerleithen, near Peebles, but left after a year when faced by personal and business problems. From Peebles he contributed to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, of which he became sub-editor and editor between 1837 and 1842. During that period he wrote for the periodical about 650 literary articles, tales, and biographical sketches. He was also a large contributor to Chambers's Information for the People.
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Who was Thomas Smibert?
Scottish poet and writer
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Thomas Smibert was born on 17 January 1810.
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Thomas Smibert died on 17 January 1854.
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Thomas Smibert was a poet, writer and journalist.
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