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Known for Offending Character?[edit]

what a load of crap that is[edit]

Sir Sidney did piss off a lot of people. But, that isn’t what he is remembered for, or why he’s important. It is fine to mention that he made more enemies than most, in a jealous and often petty service including Nelson, Cochrane, Popham, and certainly Howe, who all stepped on an awful lot of toes. (Most of them French). His defense of Acre for example.

Naming[edit]

I don't mind but I do think that he should be listed under Sidney Smith as the prime name as that is what most people know him as. I wrote pretty well all of this article and I didn't realise his name was William Sidney Smith until I was well into the rresearch. The other article is basically Britannica 1911 and has virtually no information that is not already on this page. Dabbler 02:48, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Naming confusion[edit]

-- Comment -- Please excuse any offense I may be committing; I am new to contributing and have not absorbed what looks to be a daunting amount of information on procedure and protocol.

My comment is about a point of confusion I am having reading this article. It is not clear to me at what point the topic moves from John Spencer Smith, back to Sir Sidney. On my first reading I went several paragraphs before I came to the conlusion it had somewhere migrated back, but the continual use of the singular appellation "Smith" does not help in identifying where this happens.

On a 2nd reading (the locaton follows this comment) I began to suspect that John Spencer is only discussed for a single sentence, which if I may, begs the question, why include it at all; however I think it would be helpful, if not more respectful to replace some of the following "Smith recruited, Smith arrived, Smith had, etc. etc." with Sir Sidney, possibly a more common British form. --Vernoncoffee (talk) 02:53, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sidney, New York[edit]

While the Chamber of Commerce of Sidney, New York (Delaware County) claims the town was named in Sir Sidney Smith's honour. However, it is built on Sidney Plains which had that name before Sir Sidney Smith was born and it seems as likely to me that it was named after its location not a foreign naval person. I realise that it is a published source, but is it a reliable one? Should local folk myths be added to Wikipedia? Dabbler (talk) 11:07, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Acropolis of Rhodes, in Rhodes Island in Greece, is situated on a hill named in Sir Sidney Smith's honour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropolis_of_Rhodes Fralence (talk) 11:55, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I assure you that it had a name before it was re-named in honor of Sir Sidney. 2601:445:201:3780:0:0:0:1138 (talk) 07:26, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Personal life[edit]

Very little detail besides his military career is mentioned here. Even his marriage is buried in a paragraph about his service. Did he have children? Robin S. Taylor (talk) 17:15, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]