April

May

June

26th April 1607

Captain John SMITH

Explorer, Pioneer (1579-1631)

landed in Virginia

baptised 9 January 1579
at Willoughby, Lincolnshire
Son of George Smith

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Established Jamestown, Virginia
in May 1607, first permanent English settlement in North America.  According to his own account, he was later saved from certain death at the hands of the Powhatan Confederacy, by the Chief's 13-year-old daughter Pocahontas,  who threw herself between him and his executioners.

Captain Smith became the 'first' Governor of Virginia and an advisor to the Pilgrim Fathers.

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His biographers have claimed that

his father George Smith was descended from the ancient

Smiths of Crudley, Lancashire,

& his mother from the Rickands of Great Heck, Yorkshire.

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Died: 21^st of June 1631

Buried St. Paul’s, London.

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• Voyages in Time: Cptn John Smith

• Enchanted Learning: John Smith

• Jamestown: Pocahontas

12th May 1820

Florence Nightingale

"Lady with the Lamp" (1820--1910)

born in Florence, Italy

dau of wealthy landowner

William Edward Shore Nightingale

of Embly Park, Hampshire

and

Frances (Fanny)

nee SMITH

(1788–1880)

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Frances was born in 1788,

dau of Frances nee Coape, and

William SMITH

(1756-1835)

of Parndon, Essex, an active liberal politician, pronounced Abolitionist

and  Unitarian. 

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In 1813, Florence Nightingale's grandfather, William Smith, challenged the established Church, and was responsible for championing the Bill which, for the first time, made it legal to practice Unitarianism.

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William Smith was born

22 Sept 1756 at Clapham,Sth.London, son of Samuel Smith.  

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* Flor Nightingale, O'Malley,1931

* Flor Nightingale (Spartacus)

* Fl Nightingale (You & Yesterday)

* Florence Nightingale Timeline

* William Smith (abolitionist)

5th June 1723

Adam SMITH

Economist, Philosopher (1723-1790)

baptised in Kirkcaldy,

Fife, Scotland

His father, a customs officer died the same year as Adam’s birth, 1723.
Adam was raised by his mother, Margaret Douglas, and guardians appointed in his fathers will.

Studied at the University of Glasgow until 1740. Later returned for appointment as a Professor at the same University.

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"Virtue is more to be feared

than vice, because its excesses

are not subject to the

regulation of conscience.
                                 —Adam Smith

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Adam Smith

died in Edinburgh
17 July 1790 (aged 67) 

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2007-2008

His portrait is embedded on

current British £20 notes.

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* Biography by Robert Falkner 

* Adam Smith, Philosopher 

* Wealth of Nations, A.Smith 1776

[To Smith Chat April 08 Calendar]

[To Smith Chat May 08 Calendar]

[To Smith Chat June 08 Calendar]

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