. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 202 HEREDITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL OFFICERS. a spendthrift and of unlimited generosity; his manners were lively and agreeable. He showed also a manly daring and determination. Like his father he was tena- cious of his opinions, and his vanity and self-assertion led him into collision with his contemporaries. His hyperkinesis was an effective trait in his small naval encounters. Smith was nomadic. On leave at the age of 20, he spent two years in France, visited Spain, journeyed through Morocco, where he volunteered his services in case of war
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 202 HEREDITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL OFFICERS. a spendthrift and of unlimited generosity; his manners were lively and agreeable. He showed also a manly daring and determination. Like his father he was tena- cious of his opinions, and his vanity and self-assertion led him into collision with his contemporaries. His hyperkinesis was an effective trait in his small naval encounters. Smith was nomadic. On leave at the age of 20, he spent two years in France, visited Spain, journeyed through Morocco, where he volunteered his services in case of war, went to St. Petersburg and to Stockholm, where he became a military adviser of the Swedish king; then returned to the navy. Everywhere he showed restlessness. His mother's sister had a son, Lord Camelford, who entered the navy and became a commander. He shot and killed a lieutenant on another vessel for not obeying his commands; he committed an assault in Drury Lane theater and was found guilty, but disappeared. Five years afterwards he returned to England and was wounded in a duel. In his will he desired that his body should be buried under a certain tree in the canton of Berne, Switzerland, "at whose foot," he says, "I form- erly passed many solitary hours, contemplating the mutability of human ; William Smith was of a mechanical turn of mind and interested in inventions. He was a patron of the arts. His memory was so great that he could repeat pages of poetry. He loved to entertain parties of young ladies by clever tricks, charades, and conundrums, for all of which he demanded as payment a kiss from each. At the age of 76 years, as death was near, he fancied himself as strong or at least as capable of coping with an enemy at sea or ashore as in the prime of life. But this euphoria soon passed into mental and bodily decay until he died of a total paralysis. FAMILY HISTORY OF WILLIAM SIDNEY SMITH. I 1 (FFF), Captain Cornelius Smith (1661-1727). II
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