George Barnett Smith

He was educated at the British Lancastrian school in Halifax, then travelled to London where he worked as a journalist.

[1] In 1889 lung trouble forced Smith to leave London for Bournemouth, and for the rest of his life he was an invalid.

[1] Smith made a reputation as author with a series of biographies, the first of which dealt with Percy Bysshe Shelley (1877).

Among his other works were:[1] Smith published under the pseudonym of Guy Roslyn three volumes of verse and George Eliot in Derbyshire (1876).

[1] Smith was twice married: (1) to Annie Hodson (died 1868); (2) in 1871, to Julia Timmis, who survived him.