Smith, Rt Hon. William Henry (1825-1891); see DNB; Viscount Chilston, W. H. Smith (London and Toronto, 1965); Charles Wilson, First with the News: The History of W. H. Smith 1792-1972 (London, 1985), ad indicem; the model for `Sir Joseph Porter' in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, HMS Pinafore (Ian Bradley, The Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan (Harmondsworth, 1982), 32); armorial book-plate with the motto: `Deo non fortuna fretus'. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1825 to 1891. Period: 19th century.

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• R-057(1) Reuchlin, Johannes — Vocabularius breviloquus, et al. — Lyons: Petrus Ungarus, 1482. Folio.

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