SMALLWELL, EDWARD, son of John Smallwell, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 13) Mar 1733/4; KS (Capt. ) 1735; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1739, matr. 22 Jun 1739, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1739 – void 13 May 1775 (Canon), Tutor 1751-68, Junior Censor 1752, Senior Censor 1753-9, Librarian 1763-75; BA 1743; MA 13 Mar 1746/7; BD 1755; DD 1775; Proctor 1754; ordained deacon 25 May 1746, priest 24 Jun 1747 (both Oxford); Vicar of Rye, Sussex 25 Feb 1762-8; Chaplain in Ordinary to King George III 1766-77; Rector of Batsford, Gloucs., from 6 Nov 1767; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 13 May 1775; consecrated Bishop of St. David’s 6 Jul 1783; translated to Oxford 15 Apr 1788; Busby Trustee 18 Apr 1793; bequeathed £1000 to the School and £2000 to Christ Church, Oxford; d. 26 Jun 1799.

By his will dated 14 May 1799 (proved 23 Jul 1799), he bequeathed £1000 4 per cent annuities to his executor, “ to be paid by him for the benefit of the King’s Scholars of Westminster School”. By a codicil dated 3 Jul 1799 he directed that if a fund charged by him with payment of his debts and legacies was not thereby exhausted, the surplus should be divided between the King’s Scholars and certain other designated trusts. The fund was later consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and the benefaction was commemorated by an exhibition known as the Bishop Smallwell exhibition.

SMALRIDGE, PHILIP, son of George Smalridge (KS 1678, qv); bapt. 7 Jul 1701; adm.; QS (Capt. ) 1714; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1717, matr. 13 Jul 1717, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1717 – void 8 Jun 1728 (expiry year of grace as R. Christleton); BA 1721; MA 19 Mar 1723/4; BD and DD 1742; ordained; Rector of Christleton, Cheshire, from 8 May 1727; Curate, Mortlake, Surrey, from 1737; Prebendary of Worcester from 15 Jun 1731, Chancellor from 1742; m. 28 Apr 1730 his cousin Ann, dau. of William Freind (KS 1683, qv); d. 23 Oct 1751.

SMALWOOD, JAMES; b.; adm.; KS 1671; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1674, adm. pens. 24 Jun 1674, scholar 1675, matr. 1676; BA 1677/8; MA 1681; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1680 – c. 1698, Tutor 1682-5, Moderator 1683; ordained; Chaplain to Earl of Romney; Chaplain, 1st Foot Guards 9 Mar 1691/2; two of his sermons preached to troops in the Netherlands in 1694 and 1705 have been published; d. 27 Sep 1719.

SMEDLEY, EDWARD, son of Francis Smedley, Holywell, Flintshire, smelter, and Jane ---; b. 5 Nov 1750; adm.; KS 1764; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1769, adm. pens. 23 May 1769, scholar 4 May 1770, matr. 1770; BA 1773; MA 1776; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1775; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 6 Jun 1773, priest 30 Nov 1776; an Usher at the School 1774-1820; Reader, The Rolls Chapel; Vicar of Cotes Parva, Lincs., 1782 [check name of parish]; Rector of Meopham, Kent 1786-1816; Rector of Bradford Abbas, Dorset 28 Sep 1812; Rector of Clifton Maybank, Dorset 3 Oct 1812; Rector of North Bovey, Devon from 11 Apr 1816; Rector of Powderham, Devon, from 4 Apr 1816; author, Erin, 1810 (poem, published for subscribers); m. 21 Aug 1782 Hannah, fourth dau. of George Bellas, Witley, Surrey; d. 8 Aug 1825. Monument West Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

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.

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, 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, SAMUEL, eldest son of Samuel Smith (adm. 1744, qv), and his first wife; b. 20 Sep 1765; adm. 14 Sep 1772; KS 1777; Capt. of the School 1781; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1782, matr. 30 May 1782, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1782 – 28 Jul 1804 (expiry year of grace as V. Daventry from 28 Jul 1803), Tutor 1788-94; BA 1786; MA 1789; BD 1797; DD 1808; ordained; Curate St. Thomas, Oxford 1792; Perpetual Curate of Daventry, Northants 1795 [check]; Prebendary of Southwell 4 Nov 1800; Prebendary of York from 5 Nov 1801; Chaplain to House of Commons 1802; Canon of Christ Church 1807-24, Sub-Dean 1809, Treasurer 1813, Dean 11 Feb 1824- Sep 1831; Rector of Dry Drayton, Cambs., 1808-29 and from 1831; Prebendary of Durham (holding the “Golden Stall”) from 14 Oct 1831; m. 8 Aug 1803 Anne Brady, sister of William Barnett (adm. 1777, qv); d. 9 Jan 1841.

SMITH, SEBASTIAN, eldest son of Sir Sebastian Smith, Kt, Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire, barrister, Bencher Middle Temple, and Grace, dau. of Edward Astyn, Oxley, Staffs., attorney; grandson of Sebastian Smith (KS in 1619, qv); b. 1677; adm.; KS 1693; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1696, matr. 4 Jul 1696, aged 18, Westminster Student 29 Dec 1696 – void 1709; BA 1700; MA 11 Mar 1702/3; adm. Middle Temple 20 May 1699; was kept so short of money by his that “Jew, his father” that “his utmost ambition” was “any clerk’s place of £50 per annum value” (HMC Portland vii, 12-3); of Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire; left a small bequest to the School, the income of which was divisable among those elected to Oxford and Cambridge; m. by 1710 Hester, dau. of Joseph Lowndes, Chiswick, Middlesex; buried Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire 6 Dec 1752.

On 30 May 1753 the Dean and Chapter, reciting that he had “by his will bequeathed the sum of £50, the interest whereof to be for the benefit of the King’s Scholars”, ordered the money to be invested. He had in fact died intestate ; it seems probable, therefore, that the gift was made either by his widow or by his daughter Barbara (to whom administration of his estate was granted 4 Jan.1752/3), in accordance with a wish expressed by him in his lifetime, either verbally or in some document not admissible to probate as a will. The money was invested in the 3 ½ per cents, but it seems that for many years the income was not applied for the benefit of the King’s Scholars. On 20 Apr 1804 it was, however, ordered by the Chapter that a separate account should be kept of this fund, and the interest “applied for the benefit of the King’s Scholars elected to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge”.

SMITH, WILLIAM, son of William Smith, Surrey; b.; adm.; KS (aged 16) 1661; failed to obtain election to either University 1664.