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Biography, etc., also various school series and educational handbooks, including The Classical Dictionary. He held various academical degrees, including Ph.D. of Leipsic, and was knighted in 1892.

Smith, William Robertson (1846-1894).—Theologian and Semitic scholar, son of the Free Church minister of Keig, Aberdeenshire, studied for the ministry of that Church. In 1870 he was appointed Professor of Hebrew, etc., in its College at Aberdeen, a position which he had to resign on account of his advanced critical views. He became joint editor of The Encyclopædia Britannica, and in 1883 Professor of Arabic at Cambridge Smith was a man of brilliant and versatile talents, a mathematician as well as a scholar, somewhat uncompromising and aggressive in the exposition and defence of his views. His works include The Old Testament in the Jewish Church (1881), and The Religion of the Semites (1889).