Smith, Goldwin

(1823-1910). Born in Reading, England. Educated at Eton and Oxford; elected a fellow of University College, London, 1846; regius profe or of modern history at Oxford, 1858-1866; honorary profe or of English and constitutional history at Cornell, 1868-1871. Came to Canada, 1871; and thereafter made his home in Toronto. Elected a member of the Senate of Toronto University; and was first president of the Council of Public Instruction. Index : Mc His opinion of Mackenzie, 3; on the Family Compact, 10; on revolution, 18; on Mackenzie, 27; view of parliamentary government under Constitutional Act, 54, 55. B His connection with Canada First movement, 235; elected president of National Club, 237; attacked by the Globe , 237-238; his reply, 238-239. Md Supports Canada First party, 226; on Red River Rebellion, 240; his belief that "Annexation to United States was written in the stars," 283; favours commercial union, 292, 293, 294. Bib. : Works: Three English Statesmen ; Lectures on the Study of History ; Canada and the Canadian Question ; Cowper ; E ays on Questions of the Day ; A Trip to England ; Life of Jane Austen ; The Moral Crusader ; Oxford and Her Colleges ; Shakespeare the Man ; Gue es at the Riddle of Existence ; Irish History and the Irish Question ; The United Kingdom ; The United States ; Labour and Capital . For biog., see Morgan, Can. Men ; Dent, Can. Por. ; Denison, The Struggle for Imperial Unity ; and his Reminiscences , edited by T. Arnold Hault a in.