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href="/wiki/Brompton_Cemetery" title="Brompton Cemetery">Brompton Cemetery</a><br /><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Albert_Richard_Smith&params=51_29_0_N_0_11_21_W_type:landmark"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°29′0″N</span> <span class="longitude">0°11′21″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">51.48333°N 0.18917°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">51.48333; -0.18917</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Author, entertainer, mountaineer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Mary Lucy Keeley (c. 1830–70)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Albert Richard Smith</b> (24 May 1816 – 23 May 1860) was an English author, entertainer, and mountaineer. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Albert_Richard_Smith&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literary_career">Literary career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Albert_Richard_Smith&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Literary career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Smith was born at <a href="/wiki/Chertsey" title="Chertsey">Chertsey</a>, Surrey.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHansen2004_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHansen2004-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The son of a surgeon, he studied medicine in London and in Paris, and his first literary effort was an account of his life in Paris, which appeared in the <i>Mirror</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911259_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911259-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He gradually abandoned his medical work in favour of writing. Though a journalist rather than a literary figure, he was one of the most popular writers of his time, and a favourite humorist. He was one of the early contributors to <i><a href="/wiki/Punch_magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Punch magazine">Punch</a></i> 1842,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was also a regular contributor to <a href="/wiki/Richard_Bentley" title="Richard Bentley">Richard Bentley</a>'s <i>Miscellany</i>, in whose pages his first and best book, the novel <i>The Adventures of Mr Ledbury</i>, appeared in 1842. His other novels were <i>The Fortunes of the Scattergood Family</i> (1845), <i>The <a href="/wiki/Madame_de_Brinvilliers" title="Madame de Brinvilliers">Marchioness of Brinvilliers</a>: The Poisoner of the Seventeenth Century</i> (1846), <i>The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole</i> (1848), and <i>The Pottleton Legacy: A Story of Town and Country</i> (1849). He also published a novella, <i>The Adventures of Jack Holiday, with Something about His Sister</i> (1844). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_165_of_%27(The_Marchioness_of_Brinvilliers,_the_poisoner_of_the_seventeenth_century._A_romance_of_old_Paris.)%27_(11191080295).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Image_taken_from_page_165_of_%27%28The_Marchioness_of_Brinvilliers%2C_the_poisoner_of_the_seventeenth_century._A_romance_of_old_Paris.%29%27_%2811191080295%29.jpg/170px-Image_taken_from_page_165_of_%27%28The_Marchioness_of_Brinvilliers%2C_the_poisoner_of_the_seventeenth_century._A_romance_of_old_Paris.%29%27_%2811191080295%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Image_taken_from_page_165_of_%27%28The_Marchioness_of_Brinvilliers%2C_the_poisoner_of_the_seventeenth_century._A_romance_of_old_Paris.%29%27_%2811191080295%29.jpg/255px-Image_taken_from_page_165_of_%27%28The_Marchioness_of_Brinvilliers%2C_the_poisoner_of_the_seventeenth_century._A_romance_of_old_Paris.%29%27_%2811191080295%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Image_taken_from_page_165_of_%27%28The_Marchioness_of_Brinvilliers%2C_the_poisoner_of_the_seventeenth_century._A_romance_of_old_Paris.%29%27_%2811191080295%29.jpg/340px-Image_taken_from_page_165_of_%27%28The_Marchioness_of_Brinvilliers%2C_the_poisoner_of_the_seventeenth_century._A_romance_of_old_Paris.%29%27_%2811191080295%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1466" data-file-height="2452" /></a><figcaption><i>The Marchioness of Brinvilliers: The Poisoner of the Seventeenth Century</i>, 1846 novel (1887 edition)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1842 Smith's first play, <i><a href="/wiki/Blanche_Heriot" title="Blanche Heriot">Blanche Heriot</a>, or The Chertsey Curfew</i>, was produced at the <a href="/wiki/Surrey_Theatre" title="Surrey Theatre">Surrey Theatre</a>. In 1843 he published <i>The Wassail-Bowl: A Comic Christmas Sketchbook</i>, which included a short story on the same subject as his play of the year before, "<a href="/wiki/Blanche_Heriot" title="Blanche Heriot">Blanche Heriot</a>: A Legend of Old Chertsey Church". He also wrote a series of so-called natural histories: <i>The Gent</i> (1847), <i>The Ballet Girl</i> (1847), '<i>Stuck-Up' People</i> (1847), <i>The Idler upon Town</i> (1848) and <i>The Flirt</i> (1848). Smith wrote several extravaganzas for the <a href="/wiki/Lyceum_Theatre_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyceum Theatre (London)">Lyceum Theatre</a>, including <i>Aladdin</i> (1844), <i><a href="/wiki/Valentine_and_Orson" title="Valentine and Orson">Valentine and Orson</a></i> (1844) and <i>Whittington and His Cat</i> (1845), and adapted for the same theatre <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cricket_on_the_Hearth" title="The Cricket on the Hearth">The Cricket on the Hearth</a></i> (1845) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Battle_of_Life" title="The Battle of Life">The Battle of Life</a></i> (1846). With <a href="/wiki/Angus_Bethune_Reach" class="mw-redirect" title="Angus Bethune Reach">Angus Bethune Reach</a> he founded and edited a monthly magazine called <i>The Man in the Moon</i>, which ran from January 1847 to June 1849. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Travels_and_mountaineering">Travels and mountaineering</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Albert_Richard_Smith&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Travels and mountaineering"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Albert_Richard_Smith.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Albert_Richard_Smith.jpg/200px-Albert_Richard_Smith.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Albert_Richard_Smith.jpg/300px-Albert_Richard_Smith.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Albert_Richard_Smith.jpg/400px-Albert_Richard_Smith.jpg 2x" data-file-width="401" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>Albert Richard Smith in the 1850s.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1849 Smith went on a tour to Constantinople and the Near East. On his return he published <i>A Month at Constantinople</i>, and shortly afterwards he appeared at Willis's Rooms in a public entertainment about his travels called "The Overland Mail", which proved a hit. He mentioned of the city "I had never been so strongly moved before but once - when I looked down upon London, by night, from a balloon".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August 1851 he ascended <a href="/wiki/Mont_Blanc" title="Mont Blanc">Mont Blanc</a>. The year after he published a book about his adventures, <i>The Story of Mont Blanc</i>, and produced at the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Hall" title="Egyptian Hall">Egyptian Hall</a> an entertainment called "Mont Blanc", describing the ascent of the mountain and the Englishman abroad,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911259_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911259-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which became the most popular exhibition of the kind ever known. In May 1854 he gave his performance before <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Albert,_Prince_Consort" class="mw-redirect" title="Albert, Prince Consort">Prince Albert</a> at <a href="/wiki/Osborne_House" title="Osborne House">Osborne House</a>. Smith's "Mont Blanc" show ran for 2000 performances over six years and helped to popularize mountain climbing in mid-Victorian Britain. He was one of the founder members of the <a href="/wiki/Alpine_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Alpine Club">Alpine Club</a> in 1857. In July 1858 Smith traveled to Hong Kong. On his return he published <i>To China and Back</i> (1859), and in December 1858 he commenced at the Egyptian Hall a third entertainment, called "Mont Blanc to China", which was also very popular. </p><p>In 2019, the QC Terme wellness centre opened a sauna named after Albert Smith<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as a tribute to his work in inspiring people to visit Chamonix. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Family">Family</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Albert_Richard_Smith&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1859 Smith married Mary Lucy Keeley (circa 1830–1870), who had been an actress and was the elder daughter of the comedian <a href="/wiki/Robert_Keeley_(comedian)" title="Robert Keeley (comedian)">Robert Keeley</a> and the distinguished actress <a href="/wiki/Mary_Anne_Keeley" title="Mary Anne Keeley">Mary Anne Keeley</a>. In 1860 he died from <a href="/wiki/Bronchitis" title="Bronchitis">bronchitis</a> in <a href="/wiki/Fulham" title="Fulham">Fulham</a>, London, and was buried in <a href="/wiki/Brompton_Cemetery" title="Brompton Cemetery">Brompton Cemetery</a>. Smith received great help from his brother, Arthur W.W. Smith (1825–1861), who had also been educated in medicine and who managed the entertainments at the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Hall" title="Egyptian Hall">Egyptian Hall</a> from 1852 to 1860. Arthur also planned <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>'s readings in 1858, and made arrangements for a second series, but died before they were completed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911259_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911259-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Albert_Richard_Smith&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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"Smith, Albert Richard (1816–1860)". <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i> (online ed.). 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London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Smith%2C+Albert+Richard&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Smith%2C+Elder+%26+Co&rft.date=1885%2F1900&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlbert+Richard+Smith" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <dl><dt>Attribution</dt></dl> <ul><li><span class="noprint"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> </span>This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Smith,_Albert_Richard" class="extiw" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Smith, Albert Richard">Smith, Albert Richard</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 259.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Smith%2C+Albert+Richard&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.pages=259&rft.edition=11th&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1911&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlbert+Richard+Smith" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Albert_Richard_Smith&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBevin2010" class="citation book cs1">Bevin, Darren (2010). <i>Cultural Climbs: John Ruskin, Albert Smith and the Alpine Aesthetic</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cultural+Climbs%3A+John+Ruskin%2C+Albert+Smith+and+the+Alpine+Aesthetic&rft.date=2010&rft.aulast=Bevin&rft.aufirst=Darren&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlbert+Richard+Smith" class="Z3988"></span> <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="A complete citation is needed. 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M. Dent & Sons – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Smith%2C+Albert&rft.btitle=A+Short+Biographical+Dictionary+of+English+Literature&rft.place=London&rft.pub=J.+M.+Dent+%26amp%3B+Sons&rft.date=1910&rft.aulast=Cousin&rft.aufirst=John+William&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlbert+Richard+Smith" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGoodman1895" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Goodman_(artist)" title="Walter Goodman (artist)">Goodman, Walter</a> (1895). "Chapter XVII: Albert Smith". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/keeleysonstageat00goodrich"><i>The Keeleys on Stage and at Home</i></a>. London: Richard Bentley and Son. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/keeleysonstageat00goodrich/page/224">224</a>–234.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Chapter+XVII%3A+Albert+Smith&rft.btitle=The+Keeleys+on+Stage+and+at+Home&rft.place=London&rft.pages=224-234&rft.pub=Richard+Bentley+and+Son&rft.date=1895&rft.aulast=Goodman&rft.aufirst=Walter&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fkeeleysonstageat00goodrich&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlbert+Richard+Smith" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFleming2000" class="citation book cs1">Fleming, Fergus (2000). "Chapter XII". <i>Killing Dragons:The Conquest of the Alps</i>. 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Bogue, Fleet Street.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Natural+History+of+the+Idler+Upon+Town&rft.place=London%2C+UK&rft.pub=D.+Bogue%2C+Fleet+Street&rft.date=1848&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=Albert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fnaturalhistoryi00smitgoog&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlbert+Richard+Smith" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith1853" class="citation book cs1">Smith, Albert (1853). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/storymontblanc00smitgoog#page/n8/mode/2up"><i>The Story of Mont Blanc</i></a>. New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam & Co.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Story+of+Mont+Blanc&rft.place=New+York%2C+N.Y.&rft.pub=G.+P.+Putnam+%26+Co.&rft.date=1853&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=Albert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fstorymontblanc00smitgoog%23page%2Fn8%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlbert+Richard+Smith" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmithSmith1861" class="citation book cs1">Smith, Albert Richard; Smith, Arthur, ed (1861). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/11305386.2800.emory.edu"><i>The London Medical Student</i></a>. 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