Goldwin smith biography

Date Published:
August 2004

 

 

Damien-Claude Bélanger

Department of History

McGill University

Historian and journalist, was born at Reading, England.

He was educated at Eaton and at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Goldwin Smith (13 August – 7 June ) was a British-born academic and historian who was active in both Great Britain and North America.

Goldwin Smith was a British-born academic and historian who was active in both Great Britain and North America.

Resigning on account of his father's condition of health, he came to the United States in and taught for two or three years at Cornell.

SMITH, GOLDWIN, writer, journalist, and controversialist; b.

Goldwin Smith, controversialist, reformer, and prolific journalist, was an early prophet of the British Commonwealth, and one of the first advocates of.

From 1858 to 1866 he was regius professor of modern history at Oxford University. In 1868 he accepted the professorship of English and constitutional history at the newly formed Cornell University of Ithaca, New York. Three years later, Smith settled in Toronto and became active in the fledgling Canada First movement.

However, he would later become convinced that the new nation was a political, economic and cultural failure and drift towards a passive form of annexationism. In the decades that followed his arrival in Canada he played a key role in the development of several Canadian journals, including the Canadian Monthly, the Nation and the Week, and wrote and published the Bystander, a