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Vivian Smith, 1st Baron Bicester

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Died
  
17 February 1956

Occupation
  
Banker

Name
  
Vivian 1st


Education
  
Eton College Trinity College, Cambridge

Spouse(s)
  
Lady Sybil Mary McDonnell

Children
  
Randal Smith, 2nd Baron Bicester Victoria Alexandrina Vivian Smith Mary Constance Vivian Smith Stephen Edward Vivian Smith Joyce Sybil Vivian Smith Honor Mildred Vivian Smith Hugh Adeane Vivian Smith

Parent(s)
  
Hugh Colin Smith Constance Maria Josepha (Adeane) Smith

Vivian Hugh Smith, 1st Baron Bicester (9 December 1867 – 17 February 1956) was a British merchant banker.

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Biography

Vivian Hugh Smith was born on 9 December 1867. He was the elder son of Hugh Colin Smith and Constance Maria Josepha (née Adeane), and grandson of John Abel Smith. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. His brother Aubrey followed the different path of joining the Royal Navy at the age of eleven and later rose to be an admiral.

Career

Smith served as the Chairman of Yule Catto & Company Ltd, Governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation from 1914 to 1956, and a Director of Morgan Grenfell & Co. Between 1934 and 1956, he also held the honorary position of Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. On 29 June 1938 Smith was raised to the peerage as Baron Bicester, of Tusmore in the County of Oxford.

Personal life

He married Lady Sybil Mary McDonnell, daughter of William Randal McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim, in 1897. They had seven children:

  • Randal Hugh Vivian Smith, 2nd Baron Bicester (1898–1968).
  • Victoria Alexandrina Vivian Smith (1899–1969), unmarried.
  • Mary Constance Vivian Smith (1901–1981), married Francis James Rennell Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell.
  • Lt.-Col. Hon. Stephen Edward Vivian Smith ( 1903–1952), father of Angus Edward Vivian Smith, 3rd Baron Bicester.
  • Hon. Joyce Sybil Vivian Smith (1905), married Gerald Lloyd-Verney.
  • Hon. Honor Mildred Vivian Smith (1908–1995), surgeon.
  • Major Hon. Hugh Adeane Vivian Smith (1910–1978).

    • Death

    He died in February 1956, at the age of eighty-eight, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Randall. His wife died in 1959.

    References

    Vivian Smith, 1st Baron Bicester Wikipedia
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