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Obituary: Janet Adam Smith

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19990913
Author:Leonard Miall

BIOGRAPHER, MOUNTAINEER, critic, literary editor, textual scholar, comic versifier, visiting professor, hostess, anthologist, traveller - there seemed to be nothing at which Janet Adam Smith did not shine. And she shone with an intensity that made others glow in response.

A cosmopolitan with close friends in many countries, she was first and foremost a Scot. Her father, the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith, had been Principal of Aberdeen University and was a fellow minister of the father of J.C.W. Reith, the founder of the BBC.

In 1927 Sir John Reith, as he had just become, was on a visit to the ...

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