The Smith of Smiths: Being the life, wit and humour of Sydney Smith

LORD COCKBURN: Was there ever more sense combined with more hilarious jocularity?
HON. HENRY EDWARD FOX: Nothing could exceed sydney's wit and liveliness; he made Blanco ill from laughing.
LORD JOHN BUSSELL: He drew such a ludicrous caricature...that Sir James Mackintosh rolled on the floor in fits or laughter.
THOMAS MOORE: Sydney beyond anything amusing...Left Lord John's with Sydney and Luttrell. and when we got to Cockspur street(having laughed all the way) we were all three seized with such convulsions of cachinnation at something(I forget what) which Sydney asid, the we were obliged to separate, and reel each his own way with the fit.

HESKETH PEARSON, Born in Haworth, England, in 1887, HESKETH PEARSON turned to writing biographies after a career on the stage. Beginning in 1930 with a life of Erasmus Darwin, Pearson went on the write over twenty biographies; his subjects included Shakes