Henry Smith was a

Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...

attorney-at-law and amateur artist who was forced to flee the country in 1809 after a duel in which he killed his opponent. His travels around Scotland and later Spain and Portugal during the Peninsula War (where he served in the army under Wellington) were recorded in a diary (1809–1810) which is now kept at the University of Kansas. He subsequently returned to the United Kingdom for trial but was discharged without one.

Early life

Henry Smith was born on 28 December 1774 at Queens Square Bristol, the son of Richard Smith, surgeon, and Augusta, the daughter of Rev. Alexander Stopford Catcott and sister of Rev

Alexander Catcott The Reverend Alexander Catcott (1725–1779) was an English geologist and theologian born in Bristol, who became the vicar of Temple Church, Bristol and the author of numerous works on science and theology. He was the son of Reverend Alexander St ...

References

Powell, Arthur C. and Littleton, Joseph "A History of Freemasonry in Bristol" (Bennett Brothers,1919) Year of death missing 1774 births 19th-century British lawyers British barristers British Army personnel of the Peninsular War English duellists {{UK-law-bio-stub