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Smithson or Smythson is an English surname and (less often) a given name.

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References

  1. Anderson, William (1863). The Scottish Nation (Volume 3: MAC to ZET) (PDF). Edinburgh: A. Fullerton & Co. p. 479. Retrieved 2008-03-04.