James Smith

Smith, Harry James (1880–1918), playwright. Born in New Britain, Connecticut, he studied biology at Williams College and Harvard, then taught at Oberlin. He abandoned teaching in 1906 to become an associate editor at the Atlantic Monthly and, at the same time, started to write plays. His first to be produced was the popular Mrs. Bumpstead‐Leigh (1911), followed by Blackbirds (1913), A Tailor Made Man (1917), and The Little Teacher (1918). Smith's promising career was cut short when he was killed in an accident while serving with the Canadian Red Cross.

Scots architect. As a young man he travelled on the Continent, but by 1679 was settled in Edinburgh, married to a daughter of Robert Mylne (1633–1710), architect and builder, and in 1683 was appointed Surveyor or Overseer of the Royal Works. He built Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire (c.1680–90—probably based on designs by his father-in-law), designed Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire (1693–1701—demolished), Melville House, Fife (1697–1700), and Yester House, East Lothian (c.1700–15), remodelled Dalkeith House, Midlothian (1702–10), and constructed the Mackenzie mausoleum in Greyfriars churchyard, Edinburgh (c.1690–2), among much else. He was responsible for disseminating the Classical style introduced by Bruce to Scotland, but in his surviving drawings it is clear he was familiar with the works of Palladio, and he may have been an early and formative influence on Colen Campbell and therefore on English Palladianism. In his realized buildings, however, any Palladian tendencies were decidedly muted. His works pre-date any Palladian essays of the Burlington Palladian Revival which therefore may have originated in Scotland.

Bibliography

• Architectural History, xvii (1974), 5–13
• Colvin (1995)
• Dunbar et al. (1995)

The full bibliography for this book is available to download as a pdf file.
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Biography

James Smith

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James Smith (September 17, 1719 – July 11, 1806), was a signer to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania.

He was born in Province of Ulster, Ireland; his family immigrated to Chester County, Pennsylvania, when he was about ten years old. He studied law at the office of his brother George and was admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania, initially practicing near Shippensburg, and later near York. He became captain of the militia there. He was appointed to the provincial convention in Philadelphia in 1775, to the state constitutional convention in 1776, and was elected to the Continental Congress. He was reelected to Congress in 1785 but declined to attend because of his advanced age.

Smith is buried in York, Pennsylvania.

Smith was also an alumnus of the University of Delaware, which has a new dorm on its North Campus bearing his name.

External links

• Biography by Rev. Charles A. Goodrich, 1856
• James Smith (delegate) at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• James Smith (delegate) at Find a Grave

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