Goldwin Smith was a British historian and journalist, active in the United Kingdom and Canada. Smith was born at Reading, Berkshire.
He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and after a brilliant undergraduate career he was elected to a fellowship at University College, Oxford. He threw his energy into the cause of university reform with another fellow of University College, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley.
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