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Smith (Charles), 1715 (?)-62 
Charles Smith, the first county faunist in Ireland, was a 
native of Waterford, and was born about 1715. He followed 
the calling of an apothecary at Dungarvan, Waterford, and 
in 1744 he published, in conjunction with Walter Harris, the 
editor of Ware’s works, The Antient and Present State of the 
County of Down . The preface of this book contains the out- 
line of a plan for a series of Irish County Histories, which 
appears to have led, in 1744, to Smith founding at Dublin 
the Physico-Historical Society for the purpose of collecting 
topographical materials for the series. His valuable histories 
of Waterford and Cork were published under the imprimatur 
of this body, and the history of Kerry independently after 
the society had broken up. In 1756 he, with a number of 
eminent physicians, founded at Dublin the Medico-Philo- 
sophical Society, of which he was first secretary, but the 
society became defunct in 1784. Smith died at Bristol in 
1762. 
1746. The Antient and Present | State | of the | County and City | of | 
Waterford : | Being a Natural, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Historical j 
and Topographical Description thereof. | | Together with j 
New and Correct Maps, of the City and County ; | and em- 
bellished with Perspective Views of the City of | Waterford, and 
of the Towns of Lismore and | Dungarvan. | Published with the 
Approbation of, the Physico-Historical | Society. | By Charles 
Smith. | [Quotation from Cicero] | Dublin: | Printed by A. Beilly 
for the Author, | And are to be sold by Edvard and John 
Exshaw, Book- | sellers, on Cork hill. m,dccxlvi. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xvi + pp. x un. + pp. 26-380 + pp. 
6 un. index, 2 maps, 3 folding plates. Birds at p. 335-345. 
Idem. The 2nd edit. Dublin : 1774. Not seen. 
1750. The | Antient and Present | State | of the | County and City | of | 
Cork. | Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical | and 
topographical description thereof | by | Charles Smith, M.D. | 
Vol. I. [II.] | Dublin : [etc.] mdccl. 
Collation — 2 vols. 8vo, pp. vi + pp. x un. and pp. ix-xx + pp. 
434. Map and plates. Birds at pp. 320-49 of Vol. II. 
Idem. 2nd edit., with additions. Dublin : 1774. 
Birds at pp. 325-53 of vol. ii. (“ A Catalogue of the Birds 
observed in the County ”). 
Idem. A new edition. Cork : 1815. 
