Sir William Smith was an English lexicographer. He became known for his advances in the teaching of Greek and Latin in schools.
Family grave of Sir William Smith in Highgate Cemetery
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, originally named A Dictionary of the Bible, is a 19th-century Bible dictionary containing upwards of four thousand entries that became named after its editor, William Smith.
William Smith (lexicographer)
…not found in other dictionaries of the period, including Lewis and Short. Perhaps the foremost books Smith edited covered ecclesiastical subjects: the Dictionary of the Bible (1860–1865), the Dictionary of Christian Antiquities (1875–1880), jointly with Archdeacon Samuel Cheetham, and the Dictionary of Christian Biography…
Smith's Bible Dictionary, 1863