James Nasmith
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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [1]
an English divine, was born at Norwich in 1740, and was educated at Benet College, Cambridge. He took the degree of D.D. in 1797; and his last preferment was the rectory of Leverington, in the Isle of Ely, where he died in 1808. Dr. Nasmith published A Catalogue of Benet College Library: — an edition of the Itineraries of Simon and William of Worcester (8vo): — a new edition of Tanner's Notitia Monastica, etc. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Anmer. Authors, s.v.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
Mechanician, son of the preceding, born in Edinburgh; invented the steam-hammer and a steam pile-driver (1808-1890).
