John Sidney Smith (1804–1871) was a legal writer. John Sidney Smith, son of John Spry Smith of 9

Woburn Square Woburn Square is the smallest of the Bloomsbury squares and owned by the University of London. Designed by Thomas Cubitt and built between 1829 and 1847, it is named after Woburn Abbey, the main country seat of the Dukes of Bedford, who develope ...

, 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 Trinity Hall (formally The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is the fifth-oldest surviving college of the university, having been founded in 1350 by ...

, and graduated B.A. 1847 and M.A. 1850. He was called to the bar at the

Middle Temple The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn an ...

on 7 Nov. 1845, and practised in the

Court of Chancery The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid a slow pace of change and possible harshness (or "inequity") of the Common law#History, common law. The Chancery had jurisdiction over ...

. He died at Sidney Lodge,

Wimbledon, Surrey Wimbledon () is a district and town of Southwest London, England, southwest of the centre of London at Charing Cross; it is the main commercial centre of the London Borough of Merton. Wimbledon had a population of 68,187 in 2011 which includes ...

, on 14 Jan. 1871.

Publications

*''A Treatise on the Practice of the Court of Chancery'', 2 vols, 1834–35. (7th edition, with Alfred Smith, 1862; American edition, Philadelphia, 1839) *''A Handbook of the Practice of the Court of Chancery'', 1848 (2nd edit. 1855) *''A Treatise on the Principles of Equity'', 1856.

References

;Attribution * 1804 births 1871 deaths Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Members of the Middle Temple English legal writers 19th-century English people English male non-fiction writers {{England-law-bio-stub