Author of Benderloch and Loch Creran, observations of life in the 1880s
1844 born in Perthshire
1851
Ivy Bank, Kinnoull, Perthshire
John Smith, 51, Writer and Arithmeter, , b. Glasgow (also described as Academy Writing Master")
Jane H Smith, 46, Wife, b. Greenock
William Anderson Smith, 8, Scholar, b. Perth
William, is fourth of six children
1875 book published Lewsiana; or Life in the Outer Hebrides … With illustrations"
1878
Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland Marine Highland Industries By William Anderson Smith, Ledaig, Argyllshire. https://electricscotland.com/agriculture/page46.htm
[Premium—The Medium Gold Medal.]
1881
Rhugarbh Cottage / Cnoc an Fhurain
APA-OR-Cen1881 ED2 P5 C1881_504_00_002_000_2_005Z
1881
Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
On Oyster Culture in Scotland
By W. Anderson Smith, Oysterculturist, Ledaig, Argyllshire.
https://www.electricscotland.com/agriculture/page55.htm
1882
book published Conscientia - Latter day Pilgrims
there is also a book Scientia - published unknown
1885
Valuation Roll
1885 Occupier SMITH W ANDERSON FISHINGS BARCALDINE / ARDCHATTAN AND MUCKAIRN ARGYLL COUNTY VR89 / 31 / 244
1885 Tenant Occupier SMITH W ANDERSON OYSTER FISHINGS / ARDCHATTAN AND MUCKAIRN ARGYLL COUNTY VR89 / 31 / 244
1885 Tenant Occupier SMITH W ANDERSON OYSTER FISHINGS / ARDCHATTAN AND MUCKAIRN ARGYLL COUNTY VR89 / 31 / 244
1887
book published Loch Creran. Notes from the West Highlands. Charleston SC: BiblioLife. 332 pp.
1888
A Vertebrate Fauna of the Outer Hebrides co authored by Anderson Smith
1891
Residence
Rhugarbh Cottage, Ardchattan, Argyll, Scotland
Literature and Journalist
1894
A William Anderson Smith is Named as witness AGAINST West Highland Railway, Mallaig Extension, Bill, as a Scottish Fishery board expert
SRO/13R/PYB(Syl/93 William Anderson-Smith, Scottish Fishery Board, Evidence, West Highland Railway, Mallaig Extension, Bill, Commons, 3 May 1894, and Lords, 16 July 1894
Davidson's advocacy recalled the evidence of W. Anderson-Smith, the Scottish Fishery Board's expert. In 1889 Anderson-Smith emphatically backed Roshven, as he had earlier backed the Glasgow & North Western promoters and their Arisaig branch; but in 1894 he opposed Mallaig, as unable to provide for longer range trawling which had become the best hope of the west coast fishery. P]
17th July 1894 evidence given
“Mr William Anderson Smith, Commissioner for the Fishery Board of Scotland said there was a great difference between herring caught on the west as compared to those got on the east coast. The former were too rich, and would not stand carriage either in a fresh or salted condition. They had to be sent to markets near at hand. The west coast crabs were too small to be of any value, and as for the west coast cod, they were not worth much more than 4d as compared with 2s 4d got for cod on the east coast, as they were small and of inferior quality. The effort of the government to turn the Crofters into fishermen had not been a success. Upwards of £30,000 had been invested with the object in view but it had been an absolute failure. He did not believe they had created a single new fisherman, and the bulk of the boats had been thrown back on their hands. The Crofter stuck to his land and would do nothing else. There had been much less fishing throughout the West since the date of the Crofter’s Act. The security of tenure on their crofts had made them less desirous to fish, and on those boats where one of the crew was a crofter, he frequently kept the boat from going to sea, as he devoted his time to the land. The fishing in the West Highlands had for years been decreasing, and they had now to face competition with Norway and Sweden, which reduced the price of second-class fish. The white fishing inside the Hebrides was of no value at all. The fish were so full of roe that they would not carry to market, and even if the Mallaig line were made, the fish would be of little value to the Southern markets. The bulk of the people in the district to be affected would not go to sea. He had a very poor opinion of Mallaig as a place for a Harbour; and, as a Fishery Commissioner would decline to grant it any money to convert it into a fishing harbour….
In further examination [he] said he did not think this Mallaig line would benefit the West Highlands”
http://oro.open.ac.uk/57705/2/388306_VOL2.pdf
1897
the Scottish aquaculturist William Anderson Smith wrote a report for the Chilean government entitled: ‘Introduction of Salmon in Chile’.
Temperate Chile; a progressive Spain
1906
William died - do not yet have his death certificate
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/108770421/person/112198560874/facts
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