Benjamin Smith (priest)

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Benjamin Frederick Smith (1819 - 1900) was the Archdeacon of Maidstone from 1897 until 1900.[1]

Smith was born in Camberwell; educated at Blackheath Proprietary School, King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge. After a curacy at Trinity Church, Tunbridge Wells he was Rector of Rusthall from 1850 to 1874; and then of Crayford from 1874 until his appointment as Archdeacon.[2] A faithful servant to the Diocese of Canterbury, he was also at various times during his long ministry Rural Dean of Dartford, Diocesan Inspector of Schools and Chaplain to the Archbishop.[3]

He died on 26 March 1900.[4]

Works[]

Smith wrote the foreword to "Weapons Of Christian Warfare: Sermons," published in 1884.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Venn, John & Venn, John Archibald. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Cambridge University Press Part II vol v Pace – Spyers p. 542
  2. ^ Crockford's 1898 p. 1246 (London, Herbert Cox, 1898
  3. ^ ‘SMITH, Ven. Benjamin Frederick’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 25 Dec 2016
  4. ^ Obituary.The Venerable Benjamin Frederick Smith The Times (London, England), Monday, Mar 26, 1900; pg. 6; Issue 36099
  5. ^ Thornton, William (2010). Weapons Of Christian Warfare: Sermons (1884). Kessinger Publishing, LLC. ISBN 1166261484.
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1887–1900 		Succeeded by


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