Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith was a British naval officer and politician. Serving in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, he rose to the rank of admiral in
Portrait by Robert Ker Porter, 1802
Smith participating in the destruction of the French fleet at Toulon in 1793
Smith being captured by the French off Le Havre on 18 April 1796
1796 portrait of Smith in the Temple Prison by Philippe-Auguste Hennequin
Père Lachaise Cemetery
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Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at 44 hectares.
Sidney Smith (Royal Navy officer)
…frequent attempts to obtain a seagoing position, he was never to hold a command again. He died on 26 May 1840 of a stroke. He is buried with his wife in Père Lachaise Cemetery. On 7 April 1801, the town Sidney in Delaware County, New York, was named in Sir Sidney Smith's honour. In June 1811 he was elected a Fellow of the…
Père Lachaise, Chemin Errazu
The House of Père François de la Chaise, Mont-Louis (17th century)
The cemetery, an English-style park, with the tomb of Héloïse and Abélard (top right) (1815)
Crematorium and columbarium building