James Smithson
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James Smithson was a British chemist and mineralogist. He published numerous scientific papers for the Royal Society during the early 1800s as well as defining calamine, which would eventually be rena
James Smithson by Henri-Joseph Johns, 1816
A young James Louis Macie, dressed in Oxford regalia, by James Roberts, c. 1786
Smithsonite, which was named after Smithson
Smithson's crypt in Washington
Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, was a British politician and courtier.
James Smithson
…of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name. Born in Paris, France, as the illegitimate child of Elizabeth Hungerford Keate Macie and Hugh Percy (born Hugh Smithson), the 1st Duke of Northumberland, he was given the French name Jacques-Louis Macie. His birth date was not recorded and the exact…
Portrait by Joshua Reynolds
Northumberland Row, site of the ancient Smithson house in Tottenham High Cross.