William Andrew Smith, an American clergyman, born in Fredericksburg, Va., Nov. 29, 1802, died in Richmond, March 1, 1870. In 1825 he was admitted to the Virginia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1833 he became agent of Randolph Macon college, after which he served as pastor of the principal Methodist churches of Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk, and Lynchburg. He was a member of every general conference from 1832 to 1844, and also of the Louisville convention at which was organized the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and of every general conference of this body until his death. From 1846 to 1866 he was president of Randolph Macon college, and during this period not only filled the chair of moral science and presided over the college, but lectured extensively in Virginia and North Carolina. In the autumn of 1866 he was transferred to the St. Louis conference, and in 1869 was chosen president of Central university, Missouri. He was for a time editor of the Richmond "Christian Advocate," and published " Lectures on the Philosophy of Slavery " (Richmond, 1860), a defence of the institution as it existed in the southern states.