63-1058: Albert Smith may refer to: Entertainment [ edit ] Albert Richard Smith (1816–1860), English author and entertainer Albert E. Smith (producer) (1875–1958), English stage magician, film director, and producer Albert J. Smith (actor) (1894–1939), American actor Politics [ edit ] Albert Smith (Maine politician) (1793–1867), member of U.S. House of Representatives from Maine Albert Smith (New York politician) (1805–1870), member of U.S. House of Representatives from New York Albert E. Smith (Wisconsin politician) (1839–?), Wisconsin state assemblyman Albert L. Smith Jr. (1931–1997), member of U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama Albert James Smith (1822–1883), premier of New Brunswick, Canada 1865–1866 Albert Edward Smith (1871–1947), Canadian religious leader and politician Albert Smith (British politician) (1867–1942), British MP and trade unionist Albert Smith (South Australian politician) (1881–1965), member of
126-422: A parapet (flat/almost flat) roof. Carved stone vases ornament the masonry in the corners; a band of rendering marks off the first floor. A large centre first floor window is arched with stone keystone and impost blocks, radial bars at its head. Other windows are all sash windows with bars; 12 paned. Its entrance door has a Regency period framing of its door . Wood panelling with subdued embellishment decorates
189-607: A book about his adventures, The Story of Mont Blanc , and produced at the Egyptian Hall an entertainment called "Mont Blanc", describing the ascent of the mountain and the Englishman abroad, which became the most popular exhibition of the kind ever known. In May 1854 he gave his performance before Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at Osborne House . Smith's "Mont Blanc" show ran for 2000 performances over six years and helped to popularize mountain climbing in mid-Victorian Britain. He
252-423: A doorway with a rectangular fanlight, approached by a horse-shoe shaped stair connected with doorway by a bridge, beneath which is the service entrance to the ground floor below. Two fronts are prolonged in the same style by large modern additions. Entrance has a good hall with screen of four Ionic columns and a high plaster ceiling. Other good ceilings and doorcases to principal rooms on 1st floor. Bournewood House
315-453: A farmhouse, but once the manorial mansion, in which Henry VI resided when a child. ...county debt-court of Chertsey, established in 1847... The parish comprises about 10,020 acres [4,050 ha]. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £13. 12. 4.; net income, £307; patrons, alternately, the Haberdashers' Company , and the governors of Christ's Hospital ; impropriators ,
378-406: A fictional character from Power Rangers Dino Charge See also [ edit ] Albert Smith Medal Al Smith (disambiguation) George Albert Smith (disambiguation) List of people with surname Smith Smith (disambiguation) Albert E. S. Smythe (1861–1947), Irish-born Canadian journalist, poet, and leader in the theosophy movement [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
441-417: A low weight limit and narrow carriageways inappropriate to HGVs, which have Staines Bridge , Walton Bridge or motorway alternatives to reach Spelthorne . Samuel Lewis included it in his opening description of the town above: "...[River Thames] over which is a handsome stone bridge of seven arches, built in 1785, at an expense of £13,000, defrayed jointly by the counties of Surrey and Middlesex ..." It
504-409: A pediment above and their original glazing bars intact. Ground floor windows have keystones. Upper windows have moulded architraves, those on 1st floor with cornices over, the centre one with a pediment. On the north front, the centre projection has four engaged Ionic columns with a pediment above containing a cartouche flanked by swags of husks; a piano nobile to one side connects the middle floor with
567-571: A second series, but died before they were completed. Chertsey Chertsey is a town in the Borough of Runnymede , Surrey , England, 18 miles (29 km) southwest of central London. It grew up around Chertsey Abbey , founded in AD 666 by St Erkenwald , and gained a market charter from Henry I . A bridge across the River Thames first appeared in the early 15th century. The River Bourne through
630-851: A start of a southern variant of the Thames Path on the south bank from where the path crosses the river at Chertsey Bridge. On the north of this park is the main Thameside development, the Bridge Wharf estate, through which passes this strand of the Thames Path, the long northern border then follows the Thames towards Addlestone to the confluence, by private houses, on the south side of the River Bourne, Chertsey . Narrower parks and allotments, interspersed by relatively few developments, follow this brook upstream through
693-487: A tile roof, nipped. A moulded wood eaves cornice, altered, has supporting brackets. Five sash windows with bars make up the windows. A central entrance encased door has an open pediment in the Tuscan order with flat pilasters . Radial bars segment its arched fanlight . At the top floor is a stone moulded band; the middle floor band is also rendered; the ground floor band is lined and painted. Red gauged brick flat arches top
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#1732873321466756-504: A tour to Constantinople and the Near East. On his return he published A Month at Constantinople , and shortly afterwards he appeared at Willis's Rooms in a public entertainment about his travels called "The Overland Mail", which proved a hit. He mentioned of the city "I had never been so strongly moved before but once - when I looked down upon London, by night, from a balloon". In August 1851 he ascended Mont Blanc . The year after he published
819-402: Is Grade II* listed building. Curfew House is four narrow houses west of the church, a taller red brick building in a group of five buildings of the same era; the name derives from the cruel King John and Blanche Heriot history and story which took place in the town centre. Below an open pediment are brick pilasters with moulded wood cornice , with dentils . Brick-coped gable ends front
882-663: Is a short distance above it on the opposite side. On the south west corner of the bridge is a bronze statue of local heroine Blanche Heriot striking the bell by Sheila Mitchell . The summit of St Ann's Hill in Chertsey was a vital viewing point for the Anglo-French Survey , which calculated the distance between the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Paris Observatory using trigonometry . A grid of triangles
945-552: Is also made in the neighbourhood. The town is about three miles [5 km] from the Weybridge station...an act was passed in 1846 for a branch railway... The river Wey Navigation and canal passes...two miles [3 km] [away from Chertsey]...conveyance for the several articles of manufacture, and for large quantities of vegetables, which are cultivated in the environs for the London market. The market, chartered by Queen Elizabeth in 1559,
1008-703: Is another camping site at Laleham Park on the opposite bank of the Thames. Annually, in early August, the Chertsey Agricultural Show is held here. This 7.25" gauge miniature railway, off Hardwick Lane, opened in September 1968. This is an annual event on the 2nd Saturday of July each year with live music and refreshments. Schools in Chertsey include; Chertsey High School is a non-faith school which welcomes children from different faiths and non-faith backgrounds, whilst maintaining strong Christian principles;
1071-551: Is by Bede c. 750 , in which he describes the location as Cerotaesei, id est Ceroti insula (translated as "Chertsey, that is the island of Cerotus "). The settlement appears in 13th-century copies of 7th-century charters as Cirotesige , Cirotesge and Cerotesge . The manor is recorded as Certesi in Domesday Book in 1086 and as Certeseye in 1129–30. Other later forms include Charteseye (mid-14th century), Charsey (in 1543) and Chutsey (in 1606). The first use of
1134-481: Is capped by Bracklesham Clays with a thick pebble bed. South west of the town centre, the chert and flint pebble deposits at Cockcrow Hill and Sandgates were probably deposited by an earlier course of The Bourne. Aside from being a London "commuter town", Chertsey is home to the head office of Compass Group , and the UK head office and European headquarters of Samsung Electronics . Samsung moved there in 2005; previously
1197-490: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Albert Richard Smith Albert Richard Smith (24 May 1816 – 23 May 1860) was an English author, entertainer, and mountaineer. Smith was born at Chertsey , Surrey. The son of a surgeon, he studied medicine in London and in Paris, and his first literary effort was an account of his life in Paris, which appeared in
1260-460: Is on Wednesday: the fairs are on the first Monday and Tuesday in Lent, for cattle; 14 May, for sheep; and 6 August and 25 September, for toys and pedlery. A court of pie-poudre is attached to the fair in Lent. The county magistrates hold...and headboroughs and other officers are appointed...at the court leet of the lord of the manor, who also holds a court baron on the following day at Hardwick Court , now
1323-515: Is part of Bournewood Park Hospital a central building in a large medical NHS trust adjoining St Peter's Hospital, formerly a nursing wing of the above hospital when it was run from the Victorian period as a mental hospital or asylum retreat. Chertsey has a Non-League football club, Chertsey Town F.C. who play at Alwyns Lane. The town is also home to Dial Square F.C. , who have ground-shared with The Curfews since August 2022. Chertsey Meads adjoin
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#17328733214661386-465: Is richly endowed with listed buildings most of which date from the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition to the more than 56 numbered houses/shops (42 buildings) nationally listed buildings , nine other buildings in the conservation area are locally listed. A further 11 buildings outside the centre are also nationally listed. Elevation is generally low at 14m in the Town Centre and 11 m on
1449-540: The Chapel Royal . At the dissolution , its [annual] revenue was £774. 13. 6.: some portions of the outer walls remain, and on the site, and with part of the materials, of the abbey, a private mansion, called the Abbey House, was erected, but this was pulled down some years ago. The town is pleasantly situated upon the Thames...the houses are in general neatly built of brick; the streets are partially paved, and lighted, and
1512-570: The Heptarchy , the South Saxon kings had their residence in this town ; and it became noted for a Benedictine monastery, founded in 666 by Erkenwald ...which, having been burnt to the ground in the war with the Danes, was refounded by King Edgar, and dedicated to St. Peter. In this abbey Henry VI was privately interred; but his remains were subsequently removed, and deposited, with appropriate solemnities, in
1575-559: The Lyceum Theatre , including Aladdin (1844), Valentine and Orson (1844) and Whittington and His Cat (1845), and adapted for the same theatre Charles Dickens 's The Cricket on the Hearth (1845) and The Battle of Life (1846). With Angus Bethune Reach he founded and edited a monthly magazine called The Man in the Moon , which ran from January 1847 to June 1849. In 1849 Smith went on
1638-521: The Mirror . He gradually abandoned his medical work in favour of writing. Though a journalist rather than a literary figure, he was one of the most popular writers of his time, and a favourite humorist. He was one of the early contributors to Punch 1842, and was also a regular contributor to Richard Bentley 's Miscellany , in whose pages his first and best book, the novel The Adventures of Mr Ledbury , appeared in 1842. His other novels were The Fortunes of
1701-575: The Thames Path National Trail , Chertsey Meads and a round knoll (St Ann's Hill) with remains of a prehistoric hill fort known as Eldebury Hill. Pyrcroft House dates from the 18th century and Tara from the late 20th. Train services are run between Chertsey railway station and London Waterloo by South Western Railway . The town is within the M25 , accessible via junction 11. It has a population of 15,967. The first written mention of Chertsey
1764-644: The 19th century a prosperous bell foundry, Eldridge, was in Windsor Street. Herrings, an iron foundry, flourished during the 19th century and was situated in Gogmore Lane. The Chertsey troop of the Berkshire Yeomanry occupied the Drill Hall on Drill Hall Road since 1977. The unit has close ties with the borough and was granted the freedom of Runnymede in 2009. The Drill Hall closed at the end of March 2010 and
1827-1335: The Australian House of Representatives Albert Smith (New South Wales politician) (1885–1975), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Sports [ edit ] Albert Smith (cricketer) (1863–?), English cricketer Albert Smith (footballer, born 1869) (1869–1921), England international Albert Smith (footballer, born 1887) (1887–1929), English football winger Albert Smith (footballer, born 1900) (1900–?), English footballer Albert Smith (footballer, born 1905) (1905–?), Scottish footballer A. J. Smith (Albert J. Smith), American football player, coach, scout, and executive Other [ edit ] Albert Charles Smith (1906–1999), American botanist Albert Daniel Smith (1887–1970), American pioneer aviator Albert Eugene Smith (1907–1973), American computing pioneer Albert Hugh Smith (1903–1967), English scholar of Old English and Scandinavian languages Albert Joseph Smith (1898–1973), U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient Albert C. Smith (United States Army officer) (1894–1974), United States Army general Albert Alexander Smith (1896–1940), African-American artist Albert Smith,
1890-551: The Douglas family, the latter based in Egham) St. Peter's Hospital , originally intended to serve casualties of World War II , formally came into being on 12 September 1939. It now has 400 beds and a wide range of acute care services, on the straight A road to Woking close to the much younger parish of Ottershaw. Hospital Radio Wey has been broadcasting to the patients and staff of St Peter's Hospital since 1965 and now also broadcasts on
1953-581: The River Thames at Chertsey Bridge, making it the lowest place in Chertsey. The highest point is on the peak of wooded and inhabited St. Ann's Hill which reaches an elevation of 77 m, making it the second-highest point in Runnymede . Across Chertsey bridge, pictured, on the Middlesex side of the river is the Thames Path National Trail and Chertsey Lock . Chertsey town centre lies on a floodplain terrace between
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2016-514: The River Thames to the north and The Bourne to the south. Much of the terrace consists of river gravels deposited on the sandy Bagshot Beds, which in turn overlie the London Clay. The soil in this area is loamy and the water table is naturally high. St Ann's Hill appears as an island of Tertiary strata, surrounded by river deposits. The hill is composed primarily of the Bagshot Beds, but
2079-615: The Samsung offices were in New Malden . Thorpe Park , part of Merlin Entertainments Ltd, is on the northern boundary, connected by frequent buses from Staines-upon-Thames and Chertsey. Chertsey Bridge is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade II* listed structure that has a listed City (of London tax) Post at one end, and nearby milestones. It is predominantly of ashlar light stone with two white flagstone york stone pavements with
2142-542: The Scattergood Family (1845), The Marchioness of Brinvilliers : The Poisoner of the Seventeenth Century (1846), The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole (1848), and The Pottleton Legacy: A Story of Town and Country (1849). He also published a novella, The Adventures of Jack Holiday, with Something about His Sister (1844). In 1842 Smith's first play, Blanche Heriot , or The Chertsey Curfew ,
2205-465: The abbey. Its Domesday assets were: 5 hides , 1 mill and 1 forge at the hall, 20 ploughs , 80 hectares of meadow , woodland worth 50 hogs . It rendered a larger than average sum for the book of manor and ecclesiastical parish entries, £22. The abbey grew to become one of the largest Benedictine abbeys in England, supported by large fiefs in the northwest corner of Sussex and Surrey until it
2268-407: The county town, Guildford. The traditional, yet commercially important town centre is a conservation area, joined by an arcade to a medium-sized supermarket and car park to the south. The character of this central area is that of a traditional small town, with relatively narrow building frontages set hard up against the pavement, so that they clearly define the public space. The centre of the town
2331-451: The farmhouse of the Hardwick in the elevated southwest is of 16th-century construction. It grew to all sides but the north around Chertsey Abbey, founded in 666 A.D. by Eorcenwald, Bishop of London , using a donation by Frithwald . Until the end of use of the hundreds , used in the feudal system until the establishment of Rural Districts and Urban District Councils , the name chosen for
2394-473: The inhabitants are plentifully supplied with water from springs. A neat building, of which the first stone was laid in November 1838, by the high sheriff of the county , has been erected for a literary and scientific institution. The trade is principally in malt and flour; the manufacture of coarse thread, and the making of iron-hoops and brooms, are carried on to a considerable extent; and a great quantity of bricks
2457-475: The internet as RadioWey. St Peter's church has a 13th/14th-century west tower (with 18th-century bricks above the belfry) and east chancel; a collection of the abbey's paving tiles is in its sanctuary; several are also in the British Museum and a 15th-century chancel roof. St Peter's is surrounded by many Grade II listed buildings in the three mixed shopping and residential streets of the town centre however
2520-613: The landowners. The church, a handsome structure in the later English style, with a square embattled tower, was built with money raised on annuities, in 1808; it contains a tablet to the memory of the celebrated orator and statesman, Charles James Fox , and several monuments to the Mawbey family. A church has been built at Addlestone and...Independents and Methodists. A school was founded in 1725, by Sir William Perkins , who endowed it with £3000 Bank stock, which sum, augmented by an accumulating annual surplus, produces at present nearly £400 per annum;
2583-518: The level crossing from the site of the original one, was opened on 10 October 1866 by the London and South Western Railway. The Southern Railway completed electrification of the line on 3 January 1937. Samuel Lewis devotes one of his longest entries to the small town in his 1848 topographical guide to England: ...a market-town and parish, and the head of a union ... 13 miles [21 km] (N. N. E.) from Guildford , and 20 [miles (30 km)] (W. S. W.) from London; containing 5347 inhabitants. During
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2646-474: The modern spelling "Chertsey" is from 1559. The first part of the toponym "Chertsey" is thought to refer to a Celtic individual, whose name was subsequently Latinised to Cerotus . The second part derives from the Old English ēg and means "island or well-watered land". Chertsey is one of the oldest market towns in England. Its Church of England parish church dates to the 12th century (see below) and
2709-419: The residence of...Fox, and in which are some tessellated pavements, collected from the ruins of the abbey: the water of St. Ann's Well was once in repute for its efficacy in curing diseases of the eye. The poet Cowley lived for some time in an ancient house in the town, called Cowley House, in which he died; and Mr. Day, author of Sandford and Merton, resided in the vicinity. Chertsey Regatta has been held on
2772-505: The river for over 150 years, which is in the non-Olympic regional sport of skiffing which has a club on this reach of river. Similarly the Olympic sport of rowing (in racing shells ) has an annual Burway Regatta above Chertsey Lock , an area of former flood meadow , reservoirs and golf course. The Burway was in the medieval period let out by the abbey as over 200 acres (0.81 km ) of grazing pasture (and remains postally associated with
2835-445: The rooms. Owner Joseph Mawbey had architect Kenton Couse build this substantial Georgian building surrounded by a manicured estate, now a private nursing home. U-shaped it is a rectangle of three storeys with seven windows to each of the four fronts, built of ashlar its ground floor is rusticated with a modillion eaves cornice; a parapet roof tops the structure. Each front has three centre window bays that project slightly with
2898-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert_Smith&oldid=1125622927 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
2961-522: The school ethos is Knowledge, Determination and Love . It opened in 2017 using the buildings that remained from the original Meads School, built in 1965. During a two-year occupancy, a new school building was developed alongside, opposite Clay Corner on the Chertsey Road. In 2019, the new school building opened its doors to 450 students, and has the capacity for 900 students over the coming years. The school has developed state-of-the-art facilities, including
3024-430: The school has been extended upon the national plan. The tolls and profits arising from stallage in the market and fairs were granted by Queen Elizabeth to the poor, for whose benefit there are various other charitable benefactions, among them a sum of nearly £4000, left by Miss Mary Giles, who died in 1841. The union...contains a population of 14,929. Near the town is St. Ann's Hill, commanding an extensive prospect, formerly
3087-400: The street. Enriched wood architrave features as part of its entrance door and reeded panels with raised centres. Its keystone is dated 1725 , inside a Tympanum is inscribed: "c5 Founded by Sr Wm PERKINS KBE For Fifty Children clothed and taught Go and do likewise". 25 Windsor Street is also at Grade II* architecturally, early C18 however a larger three-storey house in brown brick with
3150-468: The town centre, which rises a few miles above Virginia Water (the actual lake of the same name as the more recent settlement as a whole) to its north and south. Much of its upper catchment area still remains Crown Estate . Altogether the open space covers 70 hectares (170 acres). Nearby across Bridge Street by the bridge, to the north of this, is the Chertsey Camping and Caravanning Club Site There
3213-410: The town meets the Thames at Weybridge. The Anglican church has a medieval tower and chancel roof. The 18th-century listed buildings include the current stone Chertsey Bridge and Botleys Mansion . A curfew bell , rung at 8pm on weekdays from Michaelmas to Lady Day ties with the romantic local legend of Blanche Heriot , marked by a statue of her and the bell at Chertsey Bridge. Green areas include
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#17328733214663276-497: The town). The Burway faces Laleham Park , the largest municipal park of a neighbouring borough. Chertsey was the home of Charles James Fox , who had wished to be buried there but instead is buried in Westminster Abbey. The nearby estate that is now the large Foxhills Golf Estate, Spa and Restaurant, close to Ottershaw and Lyne , was named in honour of him, but was not his home. A long history of metal working exists, and from
3339-677: The troop had to return to Windsor due to cuts in the Territorial Army in 2009–2010. Chertsey is part of the London commuter belt in the outermost part of the Greater London Urban Area and is served by Chertsey railway station and separated from all adjoining settlements by the buffer of designated areas of Green Belt . Measuring from centre to centre, Chertsey is 29 kilometres (18 mi) from London, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) from Addlestone, and 17.6 kilometres (10.9 mi) from
3402-406: The wider Chertsey area hundred was Godley Hundred . In the 9th century, the abbey and town were sacked by the Danes , leaving a mark today in the name of the neighbouring village, Thorpe , and refounded as a subsidiary abbey from Abingdon Abbey by King Edgar in 964. Chertsey appears in the Domesday Book as Certesi . It was held partly by Chertsey Abbey and partly by Richard Sturmid from
3465-413: The windows with window dressings and quoins . Its front railings have spearhead bars and metal standards with vases, gadrooned . Pyrcroft House on Pyrcroft Road leading to St Ann's Hill is a Grade II* listed building that was referenced by Nikolaus Pevsner and has a brick front with gauged flat arches to its windows, supplemented by square brick pilasters to the corners. Moulded brick cornice underlies
3528-526: Was Addlestone . Today the history of the abbey is reflected in local place names and the surviving former fishponds that fill with water after heavy rain. The nearby Hardwick Court Farm , now much reduced in size and cut off from the town by the M25, has the successor to the abbey's large and well-supported 15th-century tithe barn, mostly rebuilt in the 17th century. The eighteenth-century Chertsey Bridge provides an important cross-river link, and Chertsey Lock
3591-624: Was appointed Ambassador to France in 1784. He arranged to have the Chertsey cricket team travel to France in 1789 to introduce cricket to the French nobility. However, the team, on arriving at Dover, met the Ambassador returning from France at the outset of the French Revolution and the opportunity was missed. The original Chertsey railway station was built by the London and Southampton Railway and opened on 14 February 1848. The present station, across
3654-612: Was built in 1783–1785 by James Paine . Chertsey has an admission-free museum on Windsor Street, which provides considerable information about the history of Chertsey. The museum holds the Olive Matthews costume collection, which is of national importance, contains around three thousand pieces of costume and was donated by Matthews to the museum in 1969. The museum contains clocks by two local makers, James Douglass and Henry Wale Cartwright. (Note however that there were three successive watchmakers called James Douglass (or Douglas) in
3717-512: Was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1536. The King took stone from the abbey to construct his palace at Oatlands Palace ; the villagers also used stone for raising the streets. By the late 17th century, only some outer walls of the abbey remained. During this period until at least 1911 a wider area was included in Chertsey: Ottershaw (and Brox) was an ecclesiastical district; whose church-sponsored (first built) schools were built in 1870, so too
3780-460: Was measured all the way to the French coast, to join up with the French survey; St Ann's Hill was crucial for the link with the base-line of the English survey on Hounslow Heath . In the 18th century, Chertsey Cricket Club was one of the strongest in the country and beat the rest of England (excluding Hampshire) by more than an innings in 1778. The Duke of Dorset , (who played cricket for Chertsey),
3843-739: Was one of the founder members of the Alpine Club in 1857. In July 1858 Smith traveled to Hong Kong. On his return he published To China and Back (1859), and in December 1858 he commenced at the Egyptian Hall a third entertainment, called "Mont Blanc to China", which was also very popular. In 2019, the QC Terme wellness centre opened a sauna named after Albert Smith as a tribute to his work in inspiring people to visit Chamonix. In 1859 Smith married Mary Lucy Keeley (circa 1830–1870), who had been an actress and
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#17328733214663906-517: Was produced at the Surrey Theatre . In 1843 he published The Wassail-Bowl: A Comic Christmas Sketchbook , which included a short story on the same subject as his play of the year before, " Blanche Heriot : A Legend of Old Chertsey Church". He also wrote a series of so-called natural histories: The Gent (1847), The Ballet Girl (1847), ' Stuck-Up' People (1847), The Idler upon Town (1848) and The Flirt (1848). Smith wrote several extravaganzas for
3969-580: Was the elder daughter of the comedian Robert Keeley and the distinguished actress Mary Anne Keeley . In 1860 he died from bronchitis in Fulham , London, and was buried in Brompton Cemetery . Smith received great help from his brother, Arthur W.W. Smith (1825–1861), who had also been educated in medicine and who managed the entertainments at the Egyptian Hall from 1852 to 1860. Arthur also planned Charles Dickens 's readings in 1858, and made arrangements for
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