Melodrama at the Smithsonian

But there is a reason I’m running this down for you. Remember those names – Northumberland and Percy –and keep reading.

We don’t know much about James’s early life in Paris, but as a youngster he was brought to England and became a naturalized British citizen. After his parents died, James Macie took his birth father’s birth name, and became James Smithson.  

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