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Authorized form of name
Smith, John (1799-1870), transcriber of the diary of Samuel Pepys, clergyman
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Description area
Dates of existence
1799-1870
History
An undergraduate at St John’s College, Cambridge, who matriculated in 1817. Smith was invited by the Master of Magdalane College to transcribe Samuel Pepys's diary in readiness for publication - a task which he commenced in 1819 and completed in 1822. A clergyman by profession, Smith became Rector of Baldock in 1832 and continued there until his death in 1870.
In the College Magazine
Photograph - a much later photograph (full length and bearded) as frontispiece - this photograph was presented to the College, but is now lost, College Magazine, No. 52 (1926) pp. 65-66
Latham, R. C. Pepys and His Editors (Occasional Paper No. 6, 1992) p. 2.