Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Smithson, James
Smithson, James; matric. from Pembroke Coll. 7 May, 1782, as James Lewis Macie, of London, arm., then aged 17, and was created M.A. 26 May, 1786, founder of the 'Smithsonian Institution' in the city of Washington, u.s.a., assumed the surname of Smithson in lieu of Macie, and died at Genoa in 1826, his will, made in London 23 Oct., 1826, commences, 'I, James Smithson, son of Hugh, first Duke of Northumberland, and Elizabeth, heiress of the Hungerfords of Audley,' etc., etc. See Westminster Abbey Reg., 454.