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SMYTH, SIR WARINGTON WILKINSON, eldest son of Adm. William Henry Smyth FRS FSA, Royal Navy, President, Royal Astronomical Society and Royal Geographical Society, and Annaretta, only dau. of Thomas Warington, British Consul at Naples; b. 29 Aug 1817; adm. 14 Jan 1825; went to Bedfiord GS; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 27 Mar 1835; BA 1839; MA 1844; probably the only Westminster who was a member of the First and Second Trinity Boat Clubs; rowed for Cambridge v. Oxford 1839; mining geologist, Geological Survey of the British Isles 1844; Lecturer, Royal School of Mines, from 1851; Mineral Surveyor, Duchy of Cornwall 1852; Inspector of Crown Minerals 1857; FRS 3 Jun 1858; President, Geological Society 1876-8; Chairman, Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines 1879-86; knighted 12 Aug 1887; author, A Year with the Turks, 1854, and a number of papers on geological subjects; m. 9 Apr 1864 Anna Maria Antonia, third dau. of Anthony Mervin Story Maskelyne, Basset Down House, Wilts.; d. 19 Jun 1890. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.