Samuel Smiles
1812–1904
Biographer. Medical diploma, Edinburgh University, 1832. Editor, Leeds Times, 1838–42. Assistant secretary, Leeds and Thirsk Railway, 1845–54; secretary, South Eastern Railway, 1854–66. President, National Provident Institution, from 1866. Wrote self-help books and biographies.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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