Samuel Smiles - Leeds City Museum, Millenium Square, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
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Samuel Smiles was a Scottish born author and reformer.
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Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/06/2013
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Samuel Smiles was born in Haddington, East Lothian on 23 December, 1812, and died in Kensington in 1904 at the age of 91. He lived and worked for some 20 years in Leeds and was editor of the Leeds Times, a railway secretary, reformer, and author.
For an article on his life see:- Samuel Smiles
The Blue Plaque is fixed to the extreme left-hand end pillar of the building which started life as 'The Leeds Institute' and is now the 'Leeds City Museum'. Below the Leeds Civic Trust logo is the wording:-
Samuel Smiles (1812-1905)
The great propagandist of
Victorian values through his books,
'Self-Help', 'Character', 'Thrift'
and 'Duty', inspired by his
lectures to Leeds working men
in 1845. He worked in Leeds
1838-58 as a newspaper
editor, doctor and then
railway secretary.