3 JANUARY 1920, Page 11

We have also to record the death of Dr. George

Smith at the age of eighty-six. He went to India before the Mutiny to take a professorship, and afterwards joined Mr. Meredith Townsend, the late co-editor of the Spectator, in editing the weekly Friend of India at Serampore. Ho also edited the Calcutta Review and acted as Indian correspondent for the Times. He wrote much on Christian missions in India., and after his return home became the Foreign Mission Secretary of the Free Church of Scotland. India and the British Raj owe no small debt to unofficial residents like Dr. George Smith.