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SMITH, MILES, eldest son of Miles Smith, Soho Square, Westminster, and Mary Steele, Hatton Garden, St. Andrew’s, Holborn; b. 7 Sep 1756; adm. 1 Jan 1768; left Aug 1773; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. 3 Jun 1773, matr. Mich. 1773; adm. Middle Temple 22 Sep 1766.

Smith, Maurice Castle, brother of Hugh Castle Smith (q.v.); b. June 8, 1882; adm. Jan. 21, 1897 (G); left July 1901; 2nd Lieut. 48th Northamptonshire Regt. Dec. 16, 1903; Indian Army June 25, 1905; Lieut. 64th Pioneers, Co. Officer March 1, 1906; Capt. July 3, 1912; Major July 3, 1918; served in South Africa 1902; O.B.E. Sept. 12, 1919; m. 1950 Emily Winnifred Branson; d. 1969.

Smith, Matthew Cantwell, son of Arnold Cantwell Smith CH DCL LLD, Prof, of Internal. Affairs Carleton Univ. Ottawa, Canada, formerly sec. -gen. of the Commonwealth, and Evelyn Hardwick, d. of Alexander Stanley Stewart, civil engineer, of Ontario, Canada; b. 4 June 1949; adm. Sept. 1966 (A); left Dec. 1967; Queen’s Univ. Kingston, Ontario, Canada 1967-70; Univ. of Edinburgh, MA 1975; Ch. Ch. Oxf., field work in East Africa for PhD in Archaeology; d. 9 Nov. 1984.

Smith, Kenneth John Hamilton, son of William James Parkinson Smith, barrister-at-law, of Putney, and Louise Emily, d. of James Hamilton Cobley; b. 16 Apr. 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (A); left Dec. 1927; ACA 1933; a timber merchant; m. 20 Aug. 1932 Nancy Sandys, d. of Cecil Sandys Walker, engineer; d. 25 Sept. 1995.

Smith, Keith Gordon, brother of Graham Rex Smith (qv); b. 7 Nov. 1932; adm. May 1946 (B); left July 1950; a children’s portrait painter; d. 25 Feb. 1972.

SMITH, JOSEPH, brother of George Smith (b. 1693, qv); b.; in under school list 1715; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 31 Mar 1718, aged 17, scholar 11 Jul 1719; BA 1721/2; MA 1725; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1724, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1725; ordained deacon (London) 5 Jun 1726; Rector of Nowton, Suffolk; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Benjamin Woodger; d. 1734. [note will Rev. Joseph Smith, Cambridge, proved PCC 22 Mar 1735]

SMITH, JOSEPH; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1744; left 1749.

SMITH, JOSEPH; b. c. 1674; at school under Busby (British Library, Add. MSS 32694, ff 545-6, 589); living in Venice from c. 1700; initially worked for Thomas Williams, a banker there; became partner in firm Williams & Smith, bankers and meat importers, and manager of their business interests in Venice from 1720; British Consul, Venice Jun 1744-60; a well-known collector of books, manuscripts and paintings; patron of the Venetian painter Canaletto; a catalogue of his collection of printed books was published in 1755, and the collection was sold as a whole to King George III in the early 1760s; m. 1st, c. 1717 Catherine Tofts, opera singer; m. 2nd, 1757 Elizabeth, sister of John Murray, British Resident, Venice; d. at Venice 6 Nov 1770.

SMITH, JOSEPH BOURCHIER, eldest son of John [Joseph ?] Smith DCL, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, and his second wife Elizabeth, only dau. of James Bourchier LLD, Hanborough, Oxfordshire, Regius Professor of Law, Oxford Univ.; bapt. 15 Oct 1758; adm. 25 Jun 1770; in school lists 1775; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Jun 1775, aged 16; adm. Inner Temple 8 Jul 1772, left 4 May 1784; m.; d. 22 Dec 1821.

SMITH, JOHN; b.; adm. 11 Feb 1788.