Record ID:
35245334 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • no2016024475
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1820
  • Loose (England)
Death:
  • 1910-03-19
  • Hawthorn (Vic.)
Associated with:
  • England Great Britain Australia Victoria Melbourne (Vic.)
Fields of activity:
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
  • Journalism Library science
Occupations:
  • Journalists Government librarians
Notes:
  • The Hamlet controversy, 1867: title page (Messrs. Smith... et al)
  • NLA in VIAF, viewed 9 November 2015 (authorized access point: Smith, James, 1820-1910)
  • Australian dictionary of biography, viewed 26 October 2015 (Smith, James, 1820-1910; born at Loose near Maidstone, Kent, England. Journalist, contributed to Punch, Hertfordshire Mercury, etc. Migrated to Melbourne in 1854; wrote for the Age, the Argus, etc. Served as Victorian parliamentary librarian from 1863(?)-1869. Helped establish the Garrick Club and the Melbourne Shakespeare Society. Died of cystitis at his home in Hawthorn, Melbourne, March 19, 1910.)
Local system number:
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX144201
  • 000000246565
  • abv02223094
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda DFo HU AIAS VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc