Smith, George (3), D.D
Smith, George (1), D.D
an English Wesleyan author, was born about 1800, of humble parentage. He was educated in a Lancasterian school, and although engaged in secular business, acquired a large fund of information, which he used in the preparation of several historico-religious works, especially a series entitled Sacred Annals, which were reprinted in New York. He died at Camborne, Cornwall, August 30, 1868.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Smith, George (2), D.D
an English Congregational divine, was born at Poplar, near London, July 31, 1803. After a course of theological instruction, he was sent out to preach under the direction of the “Tent Mission,” and in 1827 was ordained pastor of Hanover Chapel, Liverpool. In 1834 he was settled over the New Tabernacle, Plymouth, and in 1842 removed to London as pastor of Trinity Chapel, where for twenty-eight years he preached with great acceptance. He died February 19, 1870. Many large schools, both Sunday and day, were built, and still remain a monument of his labors. Dr. Smith was elected secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society. He was also a director of the London Missionary Society, and secretary of the Irish Evangelical Society and Congregational Union. His published works are, The Pentateuch: Prayers for Domestic Use: The Origin of Language: The Spiritual Life. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1871, page 346.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Smith, George (3), D.D
a bishop of the Church of England, was born in 1815, and graduated from Magdalen Hall, Oxford. When China was opened to the residence of Christian missionaries, Mr. Smith offered himself for service there, and was accepted. After spending several years in the work of a missionary, a bishopric was founded in China, to which he was elected. For sixteen years bishop Smith discharged the duties of the episcopate in the British colony of Hong Kong, among the British chaplains, and in the missionary fields occupied by the Church Missionary Society in that vast country. As a preacher he exercised a wide influence for good, as a bishop he ruled wisely, and as principal of St. Paul’s College, Hong Kong, he directed the education of many intelligent Chinese youths, who afterwards became influential members of the native community, not a few of them professing Christianity. The bishop twice returned to England to recruit his health, passing on one occasion through India, and on another by Japan and San Francisco through North America. Of his visit to Japan he published a very interesting journal. He died December 14, 1871. See (Lond.) Christian Observer, February 1872.