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Simpson, Roy Grice, son of R. Simpson, of Ealham, barrister-at-law; b. April 24, 1893; adm. Jan. 17, 1907 (A); left July 1908.

Sinner, Ferdinand Reginald, son of Ferdinand Albert Henry Sinner, by Emma Sophia Holton, Daughter of George Paice; b. Nov. 27, 1891; adm. May 4, 1906 (A); left July 1908; a textile manufacturer's agent; m. April 3, 1915, Alice Eva, daughter of Reuben Henry Gwynn­ Williams, of Ravensbourne Park, London.

Sinner, Stanley Albert, brother of Ferdinand Reginald Sinner (q.v.); b. Dec. 28, 1894; adm. Sept. 23, 1909 (A); left July 1911; a textile manufacturer's agent; Pilot Officer (A. and S.D.) R.A.F.V.R. May 26, 1940; Flying Officer Jan. 21, 1941; Flight-Lieut. Aug. 28, 1942; Sqdn. ­Ldr.; mentioned in despatches Jan. 14, 1944; m. April 30, 1931, Olive Margaret, daughter of George Magee, of Belfast.

Skeffington, Harold Ernest, son of Martin Southwell Skeffington, of London, by Mary Louisa, daughter of Henry Wearne, of Kensington; b. Sept. 15, 1877; adm. Sept. 24, 1891 (A); left Dec. 1894; publisher, firm, Skeffington and Son, 1910-7; publisher to Queen Victoria, Edward VII, and George V; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. Army Printing and Stationery Services Dec. 15, 1917; demob. Feb. 1919; asst. commr. National Savings Committee 1920-1; press and publications secretary of the Church Assembly 1921; editor of The Official Year Book of the Church of England since 1924; m. 1st April 20, 1911, Constance Evelyn, daughter of Henry Hawtrey Jones, of Waterford; 2nd Dec. 21, 1938, Elizabeth Lilian, Daughter of Charles Day, of Folkestone, Kent; d. Aug. 17, 1950.

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, Henry Raymond George, son of Samuel George Smith, senior clerk, India Office; b. April 12, 1900; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 24, 1914 (A); left July 1918; d. 25 Sept. 1995.

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, 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, Robert Alexander, brother of Sir William Gordon Smith Bt (qv); b. 6 Mar. 1920; adm. May 1935 (A); left Apr. 1936 and went to Stowe Sch.; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1938; RNVRin WW2 (Lieut.); m. 15 Dec. 1945 Marianne, d. of Serge Dennissieff and widow of George Plaoutine of Philippeville, Algeria; d. 6 July 1995.

Smith, Sir William Gordon Bt, son of Sir Robert Workman Smith Bt, MP, of Pitcaple, Aberdeenshire, and Jessie Jill, d. of William Workman of Belfast; b. 30 Jan. 1916; adm. Jan. 1930 (A); left Apr. 1934; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1934, BA 1937; called to the Bar (Inner Tem­ple) June 1939; RNVR 1939-48 (Lieut.-Cdr), despatches June 1945 and Jan. 1949; succ. as 2nd Bt 6 Dec. 1956; m. 1st 1941 Diana Gundreda, d. of Maj. Charles Malden RMLI, of Aquahorthies, Aberdeenshire; 2nd 1958 Diana May Violet Peel, d. of Warwick Goodchild, for­merly wife of George Ian Young; d. 20 May 1983.