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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[smith 
being the Rector of the parish and a Canon of Salisbury. 
He was educated at Milton Abbas School, Blandford, and in 
August 1855 went to Marlborough College. At Michaelmas 
1858 he matriculated at Oxford and graduated B.A. in 1862 , 
and was elected to a classical fellowship and appointed tutor 
at Trinity College in the following year ; he graduated M.A. 
in 1865 . 
It was on September 16 , 1864 , that he began work as 
classical master at Harrow School, and a few years later he 
built “ The Knoll,” where he designed an attractive garden, 
much frequented by birds. His active work at Harrow and 
in the arena of literature lasted until 1901 , when he retired to 
a house he had purchased at Bingham’s Melcombe, Dorset- 
shire, where he died October 18 , 1908 . 
His Bird Life and Bird Lore ( 1905 , and new edition 1909 ) 
was written here and originated in six articles on birds 
published in the Nineteenth Century from November 1902 to 
February 1904 . 
1863. [Birds in] Flora of Marlborough : with notices of the Birds, and a 
sketch of the geological features of the Neighbourhood. By 
T. A. Preston. London : 1863. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xxiv + pp. 129, map. Birds at 
pp. 103-16 and 127-9. 
1905. Bird Life and Bird Lore. With Illustrations. London : 1905. 
Collation — 1 vol. sq. 8vo, pp. xix + pp. 434, 16 pi. (Pub. 
10s. 6d. net.) Comprises 3 chapters on the Haven, in Poetry, 
History, Hagiology, Folk-lore, etc., also others on the Wild Duck, 
Magpie, etc., and Local Dorsetshire birds. 
Idem. Popular edition. Cr. 8vo. 1909. (2s. 6d. net.) 
Smith (Robert), ca. 1768 
Of this worthy, who at one time resided at Turnham- 
Green, we have no information beyond the statement in the 
first edition of the Directory that he was “ Ratcatcher to 
the Princess Amelia.” In the third edition he styles himself 
“ late Ratcatcher to ” etc. In his Introduction he naively 
states that “ however trifling and contemptible the follow- 
ing treatise may appear to some persons, the author flatters 
