Person Smithson; James (1765 - 1829) Smithson James James Louis James Lewis Louis Macie 1765 - 1829 British Male France 1765 Genoa, Italy 27 June 1829 Burial: English cemetery of San Benigno, Genoa

Chemistry Mineralogy Education: MA (1786) Pembroke College, Oxford Career: Named James Lewis Macie as a child, he changed his name from Macie to Smithson, and while in France changed it again to 'de Smithson', to be seen as a Milord anglais. Bequest to USA valued at $500,000 and until John Quincy Adams took a hand, the US was thinking of turning the money down. Established the Smithsonian Institution with £104,960 (Act of Congress 1846) Illegitimate son of Hugh Smithson (FRS 1736), later 1st Duke of Northumberland, and Elizabeth Hungerford Keate, possibly the daughter of Henry Keate who was uncle of George Keate (FRS 1766); assumed name of Smithson (c1802) Fellow 19/04/1787 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1830-1831 No 1 pp 8-9 Notes: Ewing, Heather 'The Lost World of James Smithson' Bloomsbury (2007) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 1765 - 27 Jun 1829 NA3058 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 06/03/2026 RS_NET\louisianef Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/30318758 fbf9792e-fc31-4c52-ae71-43bc77ba9787