Background
Smith, Philip Chadwick Foster was born on February 17, 1939 in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Philip Horton and Elinor Colby (Mahoney) Smith.
Smith, Philip Chadwick Foster was born on February 17, 1939 in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Philip Horton and Elinor Colby (Mahoney) Smith.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1961. Postgraduate, Graduate School Design, 1961—1963.
Curatorial assistant Peabody Museum, Salem, 1963—1966, curator maritime history, 1966—1978. Managing editor The American Neptune, 1969—1979, editor publications, 1978—1979. Curator Philadelphia Maritime Museum, 1979—1984, editor-historian, since 1979.
President Renfrew Group, Bath, Maine, since 1982. Member United States-China 200 Bicentennial Committee, 1984. Project director Great Lakes History Society, Cleveland, 1982—1983.
Member advisory com Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, Wilmingto, Delaware, 1980—1983. Chairman board, president Corinthian History Foundation, Philadelphia, 1981—1982. Adjunct professor department American civilization University Pennsylvania, 1981.
Board directors Council American Maritime Museum, 1977—1979, chairman publications committee, 1976—1981, honorary fellow, since 1985. Member Museum Council Philadelphia, 1980—1984, Wenham History District Study Committee, Massachusetts, 1971—1972, Society Nautical Research, Greenwich, England, 1969—1979. Curator maritime history Bostonian Society, 1967—1978.
Editorial advisory board American Neptune, A Quarterly Journal, since 1983. Editorial board History Collections Essex Institute, since 1975, Samuel McIntire Papers, since 1976. Editorial advisory committee Maine Maritime Museum, since 1983, corporator, since 1984.
Associate editor Colonial Society Massachusetts, 1978—1985.
(Book by Smith, Philip Chadwick Foster)
(Book by Smith, Philip Chadwick Foster)
(Book by Smith, Philip Chadwick Foster)
(Art history.)
Member United States-China 200 Bicentennial Committee, 1984. Member of advisory committee Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, Wilmington, Delaware, 1980-1983. Member Museum Council Philadelphia, 1980-1984, Wenham History District Study Committee (Massachusetts), 1971-1972, Society Nautical Research, Greenwich, England, 1969-1979.
Member of the United States Commission Maritime History (founding), Colonial Society Massachusetts (correspondent), Massachusetts History Society (correspondent), International Congress Maritime Museum (associate), Marine Society London (honorary governor 1968), North America Society Oceanic History (founding.
Married Gertrude Gouverneur Meredith Smith Stevenson, December.21, 1983. Children: Alexandra Chadwick, Hillary Webb.