Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Smith, Samuel (1587-1620)
SMITH, SAMUEL (1587–1620), writer on logic, born in Lincolnshire in 1587, was entered as a commoner at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, on 19 Oct. 1604, and became a fellow of Magdalen College in 1608. He graduated B.A. on 25 Jan. 1608–9, M.A. 23 May 1612, and bachelor of medicine 15 April 1620. He was appointed junior proctor of the university on 28 April 1620, being then ‘accounted the most accurate disputant and profound philosopher in the university’ (Wood, Athenæ Oxon. ii. 283). He died on 17 June 1620, and was buried in the chapel of Magdalen College. Besides contributing verses to the university collections on the death of Henry, prince of Wales, 1612, and on the marriage of the Prince Palatine, 1613, he was author of a popular elementary manual of logic, entitled ‘Aditus ad Logicam, in usum eorum qui primo Academiam salutant,’ Oxford, 1613, 1621, 1627, 1633, 1639, &c., 8vo.
[Bloxam's Reg. of Magd. Coll. v. 29; Oxford Univ. Reg. vol. ii. pt. iv. 388; Foster's Alumni Oxon., early ser. iv. 1380; Madan's Oxford Press.]