ABSTRACT
From her mother's death in 1857 she kept house at Oxford for her brother, the eminent mathematician, Professor Henry Smith; and there, surrounded as she was by brilliant friends, and exercising a genial hospita.lity, she nevertheless devoted the best part of her all but unbounded ener~y to the furtherance of charita.ble and educational objects. She was chosen a. member of the Oxford School Board at its formation in 1871; sat on the Councils of Somerville Hall, Oxford, and of Bedford College, London; took an active part in the management of the Radcliffe Infirmary, the Provident Dispensary, the School for Girls at Bedford, and the Sarah Acland Nursing Home. The last-named admirable institution was indeed founded in 1878 through her initiative in maintaining during seven years, out of her private resources, a nurse to work gratuitously among the poor. Neither her profound grief for the loss of her brother in 1883, nor her growing infirmities, were allowed to interfere with her usefulness to others, so that her death left a blank not easily filled. And all who knew her personally felt that she was even more than she
did. She was endowed, too, with a large capacity for enjoyment. It has been said of her with truth, that " she loved this world', but longed for the next."
