SMITH, GEORGE, son of George Smith, London; b.; adm.; QS 1703; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 31 May 1704, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1705, matr. 1705; BA 1707/8; MA 1711; ordained deacon (London) Feb 1707/8, priest 25 Sep 1709. [Perhaps Vicar of Braughing, Herts., and Rector of Ayot St. Peter’s, Herts., in 1727/8 (disp. to hold both); living 1745]
Smith, George Musgrave Castle (now known as G. M. Castle-Smith), brother of Hugh Castle-Smith (q.v.); b. Jan. 8, 1885; adm. May 4, 1899 (G); left Easter 1904; served in Great War I; Lieut. 3rd East African Batt. African Rifles Oct. 28, 1914; on leaving school entered the Merchant Navy and was twice round Cape Horn in sailing ships; in the lumber trade in Mexico 1909-12; Asst. District Commissioner East African Protectorate March 1912; District Commissioner Somaliland Protectorate 1915; Asst. Dist. Commissioner Kenya 1919; 1st grade administrative officer Kenya 1924; retired from the Colonial Service 1932; served in Great War I; Lieut. 3rd East African Batt. African Rifles Oct. 28, 1914; and in Great War II as an Admiralty Marine Superintendent; m. Nov. 4, 1930 Esme Josephine, only daughter of Arthur R. Winch, of Horsham, Surrey; d. 1969.
SMITH, GEORGE FREDERICK, son of Rev. Hugh Smith, Rector of Weston-sub-Edge, Gloucs.; b. 29 Jul 1824; adm. 27 Sep 1837 (Benthall's|Grant's); QS 1839; rowed v. Eton 26 Jul 1842; left 1843; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Sep 1843, matr. 1843; BA 1848; ordained deacon 1848, priest 1850 (both Winchester); Curate, Lasham, Hampshire; m. Caroline, fourth dau. of Rev. Francis Ellis Jervoise, Rector of Lasham, Hampshire; d. 7 Nov 1914.
Smith, Frank Halliburton, son of Frank Adams Smith, of Hampstead, by Mary Roberts, daughter of Thomas Halliburton, of Upper Norwood; b. Aug. 30, 1901; adm. Jan. 14, 1915 (B); left March 1918; an architect; A.R.I.B.A. 1926; F.R.I.B.A. 1937; master of the Worshipful Co. of Carpenters 1962-3; m. Jan. 29, 1927, Prudence Latham, daughter of Sir Alexander Dingwall Bateson, a Justice of the High Court; d. 15 Dec. 1975.
SMITH, ERNEST GEE, son of Thomas Smith, Broughton [check], Leics.; b. 1 May 1851; adm. 22 Jan 1864 (James'); QS 31 Jan 1867; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1870, adm. sub-sizar 14 Oct 1870, matr. Mich. 1870; BA 1874; MA 1879; mathematical master, Cheam Sch.; d. 1 Dec 1880.
Smith, Edwin Rodney, Baron Smith, son of Edwin Smith MD, barrister-at-law, Coroner for the County of London, and Edith Catherine, d. of H. M. Dyer; b. 10 May 1914; adm. Sept. 1927 (A), KS Sept. 1928; left July 1931; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCPMB BS 1937; FRCS 1939; MS 1941; surgical Registrar Middx Hosp. 1939-41; RAMC 1941-5 (Maj.); surgeon and lecturer in surgery St George's Hosp. 1946; Hunterian Prof. RCS 1947 and 1952; Penrose May Tutor in surgery RCS 1957-63; Dean Inst. of Basic Med. Sciences 1966-71; adviser in surgery DHSS and consult. to the Army 1972; President RCS 1973-7; President Roy. Soc. of Medicine 1978-80; hon. DSc Leeds 1974, Exeter 1974; hon. FRACS 1975, hon. FRCS Edinburgh 1975, Canada 1976, S. Africa 1976; hon. Fellow American Assn of Surgery and of the French Assn of Surgeons; KBE 197 5; created Life Peer June 1978; author of The Surgery of Pancreatic Neoplasms 1953, Operative Surgery (twelve vols), 1st edn 1956, 4th edn 1983; m. 1st 26 Mar. 1938 Mary, d. of Edward Rodwell; 2nd 1971 Susan, d. of Rowdon Marrian Fry; d. 1 July 1998.
SMITH, EDWARD, son of George Smith, London; b.; adm.; KS 1700; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1704, adm. pens. 15 Jun 1704, aged 19, scholar 2 May 1705; BA 1707/8; MA 1711; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1710, Major Fellow 14 Apr 1711, Senior Fellow 1737. [note will Rev. Edward Smith, Newick, Sussex, proved PCC 12 Oct 1742 : but he may well have been a different Edward Smith]
SMITH, EDWARD, brother of Sebastian Smith (KS 1693, qv); b.; adm.; KS 1696; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1701, matr. Jul 1701, aged 18, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1701; BA 1705; MA 24 Mar 1707/8; d. at Bristol, Somerset, shortly before 6 Jul 1714.
SMITH, EDMUND, only son of Edmund Neale, London, merchant, and Margaret, dau. of Sir Nicholas Lechmere, Kt, Baron of the Exchequer; bapt. St. Bartholomew Exchange, London 29 Jan 1671 (IGI); adopted by a kinsman named Smith, whose surname he assumed; adm.; KS 1684; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1688, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1688, aged 16, Canoneer Student 9 Jul 1688 – expulsion 20 Dec 1705; BA 1692; MA 1696; his irregular behaviour frequently brought him into conflict with the authorities at Oxford; admonished for profligate behaviour 24 Dec 1694, conditionally expelled for riotous behaviour 24 Apr 1700 and eventually deprived of his Studentship for lampooning Henry Aldrich (qv), then Dean of Christ Church; adm. Inner Temple 1690; his tragedy Phaedra and Hippolytus, with a prologue by Addison and an epilogue by Prior, was produced at the Haymarket Theatre 21 Apr 1707; Johnson declared that Smith’s Latin ode on the death of Dr. Pococke was unequalled among modern writers, and that his Elegy on John Philips was “among the best elegies which our language can show” (Lives of the Poets, ed. Hill, ii, 12, 16); his Works, with a life by William Oldisworth, were published in 1719; buried Hartham, Wilts., Jul 1710. DNB.
SMITH, DOUGLAS, eldest son of Rev. Sydney Smith, Canon of St. Paul’s, and Catharine Amelia, dau. of John Pybus, Cheam, Surrey; b. 27 Feb 1805; adm. 16 Sep 1818 (Best's); KS 1819; Capt. of the School 1823; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1824, matr. 28 May 1824, Westminster Student; BA 1828; adm. Inner Temple 1828; d. 14 Apr 1829.