Britannica.com WWW site, viewed Aug. 30, 2013 article web page (William Robertson Smith; born Nov. 8, 1846, Keig, Aberdeenshire, Scot.; died March 31, 1894, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.; Scottish Semitic scholar, encyclopaedist, and student of comparative religion and social anthropology; appointed joint editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1881; moved to Edinburgh where he wrote two books; held academic positions at Cambridge University from 1883; wrote an article and additional book while in Cambridge)
Lectures on the religion of the Semites, 2013 cover (W. Robertson Smith)