- GB-2014-WSA-15967
- Person
- 1803-1892
SMYTHE, WILLIAM, brother of George Smythe (qv); b. 23 Jan 1803; adm. 23 Sep 1816 (Packharness'); KS 1817; Capt. of the School 1821; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1822, matr. 18 May 1822, Westminster Student; 1st cl. Classics 1825; BA 1826; MA 1828; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Nov 1825, called to bar 27 Nov 1829; adm. advocate 18 Dec 1835; Secretary to Board of Supervision, Scotland 1845-52 [check]; served on several Royal Commissions; of Methven Castle, Perthshire (inherited from half-brother in 1847); DL JP Perthshire, also for more than thirty years Convener of Perthshire; m. 1st, 9 Aug 1838 Margaret, eldest dau. of James Walker FRS, Great George Street, Westminster, civil engineer, President Institution of Civil Engineers; m. 2nd, 20 Feb 1849 Emily, dau. of Gen. Sir John Oswald GCB, Dunnikier, Fifeshire; d. 17 Sep 1892.