William Thudworth St.John-Smith (1835 - 1906)
May 7th, 2009 | by Thuder | published in Poets, Artists & Writers
William Thudworth St.John-Smith (1835 - 1906)
(From The Complete Oxfjord Compendium of Not-So-Good Poets, 1974)
William Thudworth St.John-Smith, Poet of Spidgy-on-the-Thames, was actually not born in the hamlet that celebrated his name. St. John-Smith (pronounced SinJin-Smith) was in fact born down river in the even lesser known area of Ludlow Marsh.
A scholar, a noted diplomat, and a [...]