SMILES SAMUEL 1812-1904 WRITER

Manuscript of Smiles' novel Character.

Samuel Smiles 1812-1904

Smiles was educated at Haddington Grammar School. In 1826 he was apprenticed to local medical practitioners. He studied at Edinburgh University, 1829-32, and engaged in practice at Haddington, 1832-8. Smiles published Physical Education (1837, new editions 1868 and 1905). He travelled in Holland and first visited London in 1838. Smiles was editor of Leeds Times, an advanced radical organ, 1838-42. He was assistant secretary of Leeds and Thirsk Railway, 1845, secretary of South Eastern Railway, 1854-66, and president of the National Provident Institution, 1866-71. In his leisure time he focused upon the advocacy of political and social reform on the lines of Manchester school, and to biography of industrial leaders or of humble self-taught students.

His publications include:

• Life of George Stephenson (1857)
• Lives of the Engineers (3 volumes 1861-2)
• Self-help (1859)
• Character (1871)
• The Huguenots in France (1874)
• Thrift (1875)
• Life of George Moore (1878)
• Duty (1880)
• Life and Labour (1887)

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