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James Stewart Smith, colonial administrator c.1924

James Stewart Smith, KCSG, CMG, (1900-1987), British colonial administrator in Nigeria and the Southern Cameroons.

Life

Smith was born in Odessa, in Imperial Russia, on 15 August 1900, the eighth of the nine children of a British diplomat, Charles Stewart Smith, and his wife, Anne Georgiana Macaulay. He was a grandson of the mathematician and lawyer Archibald Smith of Jordanhill and a first cousin of the writer Dame Rose Macaulay.

Smith was educated at Marlborough College (1914-1919) and read Classics and English Literature at Kings College, Cambridge (1919-1922).

In 1924 he was posted to Lagos, Nigeria, as a Cadet in the Nigerian Administrative Service. Over the next 31 years he served in various postings throughout south eastern Nigeria and the Southern Cameroons, becoming Senior District Officer of Onitsha in 1943, Resident of Calabar Province in 1945, Resident of Owerri Province in 1947 and then Senior Resident of Owerri Province in 1952.

Previously an Anglican, Smith became a Roman Catholic in 1934. In 1953 he was awarded the Papal Order of the Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great.

In 1955 Smith retired from the Colonial Service and was awarded a CMG by Queen Elizabeth II.

Family

After he retired from active service Smith returned to England and on 24 September 1955 he married the musical scholar, writer, and broadcaster Rosemary Stella Middlemore Hughes (1911-2002). She too was a Roman Catholic convert. They made their home in Worcestershire, first in the village of Wyre Piddle near Pershore, then at Davenham, a retirement home in Great Malvern.

There were no children from the marriage, however Smith had a large number of nephews and nieces including Professor Martin Ferguson Smith and Thomas William Macaulay Smith, a US Ambassador to Ghana (1979-83) and Nigeria (1984-85).

Smith died in Great Malvern, England on 13th February 1987, aged 86.

Publications

Smith privately published his memoirs, The Last Time, in 1974. A copy of the book was deposited along with his personal papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

A second edition of The Last Time, with a new foreword, appendices and 90 newly sourced photographs and maps, was privately published in 2019. Copies have been deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the Cambridge University Library, the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Cambridge Centre of African Studies, and the British Library.

A free ebook version of The Last Time is available from the Cambridge Centre of African studies.

Category: Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George [[Category: Knight Com