Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Robert Payne Smith

Born: November 7, 1818
Died: March 31, 1895 (aged 76)
Bio: Robert Payne Smith was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church from 1865 until 1870, when he was appointed Dean of Canterbury by Queen Victoria on the advice of William Ewart Gladstone.
Known for:
- Prophecy, a preparation for Christ (1869)