John Pye Smith
1774–1851
Clergyman and polymath. Son of a bookseller. Studied at Rotherham Academy. Resident classical tutor, Homerton Academy, from 1800. Ordained Congregational minister of a new independent church, 1804. Theological tutor, Homerton, 1806. Wrote on science and religion, insisting that Christians should welcome scientific fact as confirming faith. Fellow of the Geological Society of London, 1836. FRS 1840.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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