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George Smith
1833–1919
A Scottish educator, journalist, and historian who spent much of his working life in India, he wrote widely on geography, missions, and colonial-era history. His books often tried to make distant places and big historical movements feel vivid and immediate to general readers.
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About the author
Born in 1833, he was a Scottish writer and scholar whose career took him to India, where he worked in education and journalism. Reliable reference sources describe him as a historian and geographer, and also note his long association with Calcutta through roles such as principal of Doveton College and editor of influential periodicals.
His published work ranges across biography, missionary history, geography, and the British Empire in India. Titles connected with him include works on William Carey, David Livingstone, and wider Christian missions, showing a writer interested in people who linked travel, religion, education, and public life.
He died in 1919. Although he was clearly a substantial and prolific author, I couldn't confirm a suitable portrait image from the sources I checked, so no profile image is included here.