James Smithson ( 1765 - 1829 )

Birth: France (1765) Death: Genoa, Italy (27 June 1829) Burial: English cemetery of San Benigno, Genoa Research Field: Chemistry, mineralogy Education: MA (1786) Pembroke College, Oxford Career: Named James Lewis Macie as a child, he changed his name from Macie to Smithson, and while in France changed it again to 'de Smithson', to be seen as a Milord anglais.