John Sidney Smith

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John Sidney Smith (1804–1871) was a legal writer.

Smith, son of John Spry Smith of 9 Woburn Square, London, was born in 1804, and held a situation in the six clerks' office in the court of chancery until 23 Oct. 1842, when the establishment was abolished. He soon after entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. 1847 and M.A. 1850. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple on 7 Nov. 1845, and practised in the Court of Chancery.

He died at Sidney Lodge, Wimbledon, Surrey, on 14 Jan. 1871.

[edit] Publications

In 1834–5 he published, in two volumes, ‘A Treatise on the Practice of the Court of Chancery,’ a very useful work, the seventh edition of which he brought out in conjunction with Alfred Smith in 1862; there was also an American edition (Philadelphia, 1839). Smith likewise wrote ‘A Handbook of the Practice of the Court of Chancery,’ 1848 (2nd edit. 1855), and ‘A Treatise on the Principles of Equity,’ 1856.

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900), a publication now in the public domain.