Arthur Smith (historian)
Arthur Lionel Smith (1850 – 12 April 1924) was a British
Master of Balliol College, Oxford
, from 1916 to 1924.
Early life
Smith was born on 4 December 1850.[1] He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1869 to 1874 and won the Lothian Prize Essay competition.
Career
Smith became a
In October 1907 Smith paid a visit to
Lord Curzon where the proposal was repeated and Dennis Hird, a lecturer in Sociology and Logic responded informing Curzon that as far as the students were concerned Ruskin College was irrevocably part of the Labour movement, which they envisaged making great changes in society presently. It subsequently transpired that certain members of the Ruskin College had been planning to sack Hird and to alter the curriculum by replacing Sociology and Logic with literature and temperance.[4]
Smith was important in developing history teaching.[5] He was a close friend of the pomologist Ronald Hatton.[citation needed]
Personal life
In 1879, Smith married Mary Smith, with whom he had nine children.[6] They first lived at 7 Crick Road in North Oxford until 1893. Their daughter Miriam married the diplomat Sir Reader Bullard.[7] Smith's daughter Rosalind married Oxford historian Edward Murray Wrong. His youngest daughter Barbara married Sir Hugh Cairns the first Nuffield Professor of Surgery.
References
- ^ Memorial Plaque, St Aidan's Church, Bamburgh
- ^ Balliol Archives Exhibitions — Arthur Lionel Smith (1850–1924) Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Balliol College, Oxford, UK.
- ^ Salter, H. E.; Lobel, Mary D., eds. (1954). "Balliol College". A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford. Victoria County History. pp. 82–95. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- Plebs League. 1908. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ A. L. Smith archive, Balliol College, Oxford, UK.
- ISBN 1-899536-25-6.
- Adam and Charles Black. 1956. p. 408.
