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Foster: Smith, Thomas, 'ser.' Queen's Coll., matric. 29 Oct 1657, BA 15 Mar 1660-1, MA 1663; incorporated at Cambridge 1673; fellow Magdalen Col 1666-92. BD 1674, DD 1683, master of the college school 1664-6; (s. John, of All Hallows, Barking), born there 3 June 1638; an oriental scholar, chaplain to Sir Daniel Harvey, ambassador at Constantinople 1668-71; chaplain to Sir Joseph Williamson, secretary of State, rector of Stanlake, Oxon, Dec. 1684 and Jan 1684-5; died 11 May 1710. See Ath. iv. 597; Bloxam, iii. 182; Rawl. iii. 174; Hearne, iii. 15.