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Darwin Correspondence Project

Henry Beardmore Smyth

1847–95

Medical assistant and medical student. Assistant at the time of his death to Dr Shackelton of Poplar, London. Married Ellen Denham in Hackney, 1871. Died as a result of taking prussic acid. Collected moths.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1891 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG12/135/6/5)

Chemist and Druggist, 15 March 1895, p. 366

letter from H. B. Smyth, 15 January 1876

London, England, marriages & banns 1754–1921 (Ancestry.com, accessed 27 January 2016)

letter