Goldwin Smith

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Goldwin Smith : biography

August 13, 1823 – June 7, 1910

Goldwin Smith D. C. L., LL.D. (August 13, 1823 – June 7, 1910) was a British historian and journalist, active in the United Kingdom and Canada.

Later years

In his later years he expressed his views in a weekly journal, The Farmer’s Sun, and published in 1904 My Memory of Gladstone, while occasional letters to the Spectator showed that he had lost neither his interest in English politics and social questions nor his remarkable gifts of style. He died at his residence in Toronto, The Grange.

Goldwin Smith is credited with the quote "Above all nations is humanity," an inscription that was engraved in a stone bench he offered to Cornell in May 1871. The bench sits in front of Goldwin Smith Hall, named in his honor. This quote is the motto of the University of Hawaii and other institutions around the world (for example, the Cosmopolitan Club at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). at www.prairienet.org

Another stone bench inscribed with the motto, sits in the University of Bosporus In Istanbul. It sits with a clear view down onto the city.

After his death, a plaque in his memory was erected outside his birthplace in the town centre of Reading. This still exists, outside the entrance to the Harris Arcade.

Works

  • Macmillan’s Magazine, Vol. X, May/October 1864.
  • The Atlantic Monthly, Volume XIV, Issue 86, December 1864.
  • Macmillan’s Magazine, Vol. XI, November 1864/April 1865.
  • Macmillan’s Magazine, Vol. XI, November 1864/April 1865.
  • Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Volume XXX, Issue 180, May, 1865; , Volume XXXI, Issue 181, June, 1865.
  • Macmillan’s Magazine, Vol. XII, May/October 1865.
  • Macmillan’s Magazine, Vol. XII, May/October 1865.
  • The Atlantic Monthly, Volume XVIII, Issue 105, July 1866.
  • Macmillan’s Magazine, Vol. XVII, November 1867/April 1868.
  • The North American Review, Vol. 108, No. 222, Jan., 1869.
  • Advocate of Peace (1847-1884), New Series, Vol. 1, No. 6, June 1869.
  • The Atlantic Monthly, Volume XXV, Issue 147, January 1870.
  • The North American Review, Vol. 110, No. 226, Jan., 1870.
  • Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. II, July/December 1872.
  • Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. II, July/December 1872.Reprinted in the Vol. XXI, December 1872/May 1873.
  • Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. III, January/June 1873.
  • Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. III, January/June 1873.
  • Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. IV, July/December 1873.
  • Macmillan’s Magazine, Vol. XXX, May/October 1874.Cairnes, J. C. The New York Times, September 23, 1874.
  • The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXIX, December 1876/May 1877.
  • The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXX, September 1877.
  • The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXX, November 1877.
  • The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXXI, December 1877/March 1878.
  • The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXXI, December 1877/March 1878.Adler, Rabbi Hermann. The Nineteenth Century, Vol. III, January/June 1878.Schwab, Isaac. Industrial School of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, 1878.
  • The Nineteenth Century, Vol. III, January/June 1878.Adler, Rabbi Hermann. The Nineteenth Century, Vol. IV, July/December 1878.
  • Eclectic Magazine, Vol. XXVIII, July/December 1878.
  • The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXXII, May 1878.Reprinted by Vol. XXVIII, July/December 1878.
  • The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXXIV, December 1878.
  • The Atlantic Monthly, Volume XLIII, Issue 255, January 1879.
  • The Atlantic Monthly, Volume XLIV, Issue 265, November 1879.
  • The Atlantic Monthly, Volume XLV, Issue 268, February 1880.
  • The North American Review, Vol. 131, No. 284, Jul., 1880.
  • The Contemporary Review, Vol. XL, July/December 1881.
  • The Nineteenth Century, Vol. X, July/December 1881.Adler, Rabbi Hermann. The Nineteenth Century, Vol. X, July/December 1881.
  • The Contemporary Review, Vol. XLI, January/June 1882.
  • The Contemporary Review, Vol. XLI, January/June 1882.
  • The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XI, January/June 1882.
  • The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XI, January/June 1882.
  • The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XII, July/December 1882.
  • The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XII, July/December 1882.
  • The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XIII, January/June 1883.