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Cecil Smith

1826–90

Barrister and ornithologist. Of Lydeard House, Taunton, Somerset. BA, Cambridge (Trinity College), 1849. Called to the bar, 1852. Justice of the peace, Somerset. Author of Birds of Somersetshire (1869) and Birds of Guernsey (1879).

Sources

Alum. Cantab.

London Gazette

5 December 1890, p. 6883

Men-at-the-bar.

Bibliography

Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.

Men-at-the-bar: Men-at-the-bar: a biographical hand-list of the members of the various inns of court, including Her Majesty’s judges, etc. By Joseph Foster. London: Reeves & Turner. 1885.

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