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   Robert Percy Smith, known as "Bobus" Smith (7 May 1770 – 10 March 1845), was a British lawyer, Member of Parliament, and Judge Advocate-General of Bengal, India. Smith was eldest son of Robert Smith, and brother of the writer and clergyman Sydney Smith. He entered Eton College in 1782, and became very intimate with John Hookham Frere, George Canning, and Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland. With them in 1786 he started the school magazine entitled "The Microcosm", which ran for forty volumes, and procured for Smith an introduction to Queen Charlotte. In 1788 he became a scholar on Dr. Battie's foundation, and in 1791 obtained Sir William Browne's medal for the best Latin ode. In the same year he entered King's College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in 1794 and M.A. in 1797. On 4 July of the same year he was called to the bar of Lincoln's Inn. In 1803, through the influence of William Petty, first Marquess of Lansdowne, and Sir Francis Baring, he obtained the appointment of Judge Advocate General of Bengal. In seven years he returned to England with a fortune, and settled in London. While in India he allowed his brother Sydney £100 a year, and on his return lent him £500 towards the expenses of his move into the country, and gave £100 a year to support Sydney's eldest son at Westminster. In 1812 Smith entered House of Commons as member for Grantham, but made no reputation as a speaker. At the general election of 1818 he contested Lincoln unsuccessfully, but two years later he won the seat and sat as the representative of the borough until his retirement after the dissolution of 1826. Although Robert never attained the same level of fame as his brother Sydney- with whom his relationship was always affectionate- those who knew both men considered "Bobus" to equal, if not surpass, Sydney in "the very qualities for which the younger was renowned"; he was considered "a man of great originality, a profound thinker, and of wide grasp of mind. His wit was proverbial... his conversation provoked the admiration of Madam de Staël." Canning referred to his language as "the essence of English"; Landor declared that "his Latin hexameters would not have discredited Lucretius". Smith's son published a number of his Latin verses, as "Early Writings of Robert Percy Smith" (Chiswick, 1850, quarto).Smith was also a member of the New River Company, who developed part of Finsbury as the head of the New River, and Percy Circus in Finsbury is named after him.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Bobus in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Bobus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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