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GB-2014-WSA-15824 · Person · 1865-?

SMEE, HENRY HUGH MASON, son of J. H. Smee, South Kensington, London; b. 5 Feb 1865; adm. from Uppingham Sch. 27 Jan 1879 (H); left Dec 1880; a farmer.

GB-2014-WSA-15842 · Person · 1909-?

Smith, Arthur Hugh Jordan de Pledge, son of Rev. Arthur Edward Smith, Vicar of Kensington and Preb. of St Pauls, and Dora Cox, d. of Henry Lloyd Edwardes-Jordan of Handsworth, Bir­mingham; b. 31 Oct. 1909; adm. Sept. 1923 (H); left Apr. 1927; gold mining in S. Africa; m. Mar. 1932 Aileen Anne, d. of John Avery of Willesden.

GB-2014-WSA-15874 · Person · 1919-1984

Smith, Jack Macfarlane, son of Owen Maurice Smith CB, Under-Sec. Min. of Nat. Insurance, and Eleanor, d. of James Shaw Howie Macfarlane of Brighton; b. 5 Jan. 1919; adm. Jan. 1933 (H); left July 1936; Faraday House, DFH 1940; RNVR 1940-6 (Elect. Lieut.); an electrical engi­neer, MIEE CEng 1946; district engineer Seeboard, Worthing, retd 1973; Inland Revenue Worthing 1974; m. 29 Aug. 1952 Vera Windsor, d. of John F. W. Dowling of Reading; d. 30 Apr. 1984.

GB-2014-WSA-15907 · Person · 1894-1959

Smith, Sydney Gordon, son of Sydney Smith, L.S.A., of Fulham; b. April 22, 1894; adm. April 29, 1909 (H); left Dec. 1909; enlisted as trooper Yeomanry Rough Riders (T.F.) in Great War I; d. 1959.

GB-2014-WSA-15916 · Person · 1878-1958

Smith, Waldemar Ernest, eldest son of Waldemar Schmidt, of South Kensington, by Alma Louise, daughter of Henry Degetan, of Paris; b. March 7, 1878; adm. Jan. 15, 1891 (H); left Dec. 1894; manager of the Union Insurance Co. at Hong-Kong; d. Sept. 4, 1958.

GB-2014-WSA-15928 · Person · 1916-1998

Smitham, James Hillyer, son of Richard Llewellyn Smitham, US steel executive, of Sutton, Sur­rey, and Emily Dora, d. of William Hillyer Mason, corn and seed merchant, of Chingford, Essex; b. 30 Nov. 1916; adm. Sept. 1930 (H); left July 1934; King's Coll. Lond. and Westmmster Hosp. Med. Sch., MB BS MRCS LRCP 1940; RAMC in WW2 (Maj.); FFR 1949, FRCR 1975; a consultant radiologist; Lewisham Hosp. 1949-51, Kingston Hosp. 1952-82, Chelsea Hosp. for Women 1954-82, Queen Charlotte's Hosp. 1963-82; hon. sen. lecturer Inst. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; m. 22 Jan. 1943 Margaret Phillis Lawrence SRN, d. of Ernest Willoughby Lawrence, linen merchant, of Worthing; d. 27 Jan. 1998.

GB-2014-WSA-15977 · Person · 1914-1978

Snelling, Robert Walter, son of Walter Edward Snelling of Putney and Dorothy Maud, d. of Rob­ert Phillips of Battersea; b. 20 Sept. 1914; adm. May 1928 (H); left July 1930; Munich Univ. 1931- 2; Univ. Coll. Lond. 1932-3; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1933, BA 1936, MA 1940; FIL 1937; Roy. Tank Regt 1941, transf. Intell. Corps 1943 (Capt.); BSc (Lond.) 1947; attd Foreign Office 1948, then exec. officer Min. of Defence; Attaché Brit. Embassy Washington DC 1956; Brit. Military Govt Berlin 1959; scientific adviser Brit. delegation to Nuclear Test Ban Conference, Geneva, 1961; head of Foreign Office Tech. Maintenance Service 1962-9; Dir. of Communications FCO 1969-74; retd Mar. 1974; m. 1st 14 Aug. 1941 Mabel Lorna, d. of Rev. Frederick Chalmers Rogers of Newton Abbot, Devon; 2nd 24 Nov. 1973 Patricia Christine, d. of Aubrey Charles Heady of Mixbury, Northants; d. 30 June 1978.

GB-2014-WSA-16003 · Person · 1865-1931

SOLBE, CHARLES EDWARD DE LISLE, son of Rev. Charles Augustus Solbé, Bromley, Kent, Chaplain to the Forces, and Agnes Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Thomas Rock Garnsey, Vicar of Christ Church, Forest of Dean, Gloucs.; b. 21 Jan 1865; adm. 26 Sep 1878 (H); left Dec 1882; 2nd Lieut., Royal West Surrey Regt., 16 Nov 1887; Indian Staff Corps 1888; Lieut., 3rd Sikh Infantry 3 Mar 1889; Capt., 16 Nov 1898; Maj., 16 Nov 1905; Lieut. -Col., 16 Nov 1913; retd. 17 Nov 1913; served in Burmese expedition 1888-90 and on North-West Frontier 1897-8, 1901-2, 1908; d. 4 Jul 1931.

GB-2014-WSA-16025 · Person · 1900-1981

Somerville, Angus Christopher, son of the Rev. William James Sommerville, Rector of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, by Alice, daughter of Henry Conyers, of Ben Rhydding, Yorks; b. Oct. 7, 1900; adm. from Chigwell School Jan. 15, 1914 (H); London Univ. and King's Coll. Hospital; L.R.C.P. and M.R.C.S. 1923; house surgeon, King's Coll. Hospital; Asst. Med. Officer, Grove Hospital, Tooting. Surrey, Nov. 1924-7; clinical asst. Gt. Ormond St. Hospital; in practice at East Grinstead, Sussex; H.M. Coroner for East Sussex (Lewes Div.); m. Sept. 1, 1927, Joan Crawford, daughter of Henry Riley, of Kew, Surrey; d. 22 June 1981.

Sondheim, Harold, 1899-?
GB-2014-WSA-16031 · Person · 1899-?

Sondheim, Harold, brother of Albert Sherriff (q.v.); b. May 6, 1899; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (H); left Dec. 1915.