Sid smith biography

Life and career Smith was born in Preston, Lancashire.
Sid Smith is an English freelance writer, contributing music-related articles and reviews to both national and regional press.
A writer for various music publications including Mojo, Classic Rock, Record Collector and BBC Music, Smith has also written sleeve notes for major labels like.

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Born:	July 11, 1925	Draft:	Undrafted
Hometown:	Toronto, Ontario	Position:	Left Wing
Known For:	Shoots/Catches:	Left
National Team:	N/A	Current Team:	Retired

Sidney James Smith (July 11, 1925 – April 29, 2004) was a National Hockey League left winger who played with the Toronto Maple Leafs for 12 seasons. He was the Leafs team captain from 1955 to 1956. Smith won three Stanley Cup titles with the Maple Leafs.

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Sid Smith (novelist)

Not to be confused with Sid Smith (author).

Sid Smith (born c. 1949) is an English novelistpoet and journalist.

Life and career

Smith was born in Preston, Lancashire. For seven years he worked in labouring jobs, including dustman, gardener, gravedigger and construction worker.^[1] Since then he has hitch-hiked 9,000 miles around the US, lived in Italy and Greece, and acquired a pilot's licence for paragliders.

Smith came late to literary prominence. He had been a journalist for 17 years,^[1] including two years as a sub-editor on The Times, and was already in his 50s when his debut novel Something Like A House was published in 2001. The tale of a British deserter in China at the time of the Cultural Revolution, Something Like a House won critical praise and went on to win both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award. What was remarkable about the book was its meticulous evocation of time and place, especially since Smith had never been to China and had written the book entirely fr

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SMITH, SIDNEY, lawyer, politician, and officeholder; b. 16 Oct. 1823 at Port Hope, Upper Canada, son of John David and Augusta Louisa Smith; m. 21 Jan. 1845 Mary Ann Bennett of Cobourg, Canada West, and they had five sons and one daughter; d. 27 Sept. 1889 at Cobourg.

Sidney Smith was born of a uel family; his paternal grandfather, Elias, a successful merchant and trader, left New York and settled in Upper Canada, where he was a founder in 1792 of what was to become Port Hope. Sidney’s father, John David, a merchant and distiller, sat in the House of Assembly of Upper Canada for Durham from 1828 to 1830. Sidney was educated privately and in the grammar school at Port Hope. He then studied law in the office of his brother, John Shuter, with whom he was later a partner, and was admitted to the bar in 1844. He was to continue the practice of law throughout his life, practising first in Cobourg, where he also acted as solicitor for the Commercial Bank of the Midland District, the Bank of Montreal, the Midland Railway of Canada, and the town of C