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Alfred Charles Smith

1822–98

Clergyman and ornithologist. Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. BA, Oxford, 1846. Rector of Yatesbury, Calne, Wiltshire, 1852–88. Wrote on the ornithology of Wiltshire and travel.

Sources

Alum. Oxon.

Modern English biography.

Bibliography

Alum. Oxon.: Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1886: … with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the university. Alphabetically arranged, revised, and annotated by Joseph Foster. 8 vols. London and Oxford: Parker & Co. 1887–91.

Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.

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