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William Haynes-Smith

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Sir William Haynes-Smith
High Commissioner of Cyprus
In office
23 April 1898 – 17 October 1904
Preceded bySir Walter Joseph Sendall
Succeeded bySir Charles King-Harman
Governor of the Bahamas
In office
1895–1898
MonarchVictoria
Preceded bySir Ambrose Shea
Succeeded bySir Gilbert Thomas Carter
Governor of Antigua and Barbuda
In office
1888–1895
Preceded bySir Charles Mitchell
Succeeded bySir Francis Fleming
Acting
Governor of British Guiana
In office
26 April 1884 – 1884
MonarchVictoria
Preceded bySir Henry Turner Irving
Succeeded bySir Henry Turner Irving
Attorney General of British Guiana
In office
1874–1888
Preceded byJoseph Trounsell Gilbert
Succeeded byJohn Worrell Carrington
Personal details
Born
William Frederick Haynes-Smith

(1839-06-26)26 June 1839
Blackheath, Kent
Died18 December 1928(1928-12-18) (aged 89)
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
Spouse
Ellen Parkinson White
(m. 1867; died 1923)
RelationsMichael Villiers (grandson)
Sir Alfred Lucie-Smith (brother)
Parent(s)Sir John Lucie-Smith
Marie van Waterschoodt

Sir William Frederick Haynes-Smith KCMG (26 June 1839 – 18 December 1928) was an English colonial administrator in the British Empire.[1]

Early life

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Haynes-Smith was born in Blackheath, Kent on 26 June 1839. He was the fifth son of John Lucie Smith L.L.D. and Martha Bean. He was Uncle to Sir Alfred Lucie-Smith, who was also a colonial judge who married first Rose Alice Emerentiana Aves and second Meta Mary Ross (a daughter of Sir David Palmer Ross).[2]

Career

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He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1863, and shortly after was sent to British Guiana as Solicitor-General.[2] In 1874, he was appointed Attorney-General. A decade later, he served as acting Governor for a few months, which he also did 1887.[3] In November 1888, he was appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands, followed by a transfer to the Bahamas in 1895.[4][5][6] He served as High Commissioner of Cyprus from 1898 to 1904.[1]

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1887, and knighted in the same order in 1890.[1]

Personal life

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Photograph of Howard Sturgis and his son, William Haynes-Smith on the steps at Queen's Acres, Windsor, before 1920.

In 1867, he was married to Ellen Parkinson White (1838–1923) at Tunbridge Wells.[7] Ellen was a daughter of English-born James Thomas White (son of Dr. Andrew White FRCS) and Anne Gordon Hubbard (daughter of John Hubbard and Jane (née Parkinson) Hubbard). Ellen's aunt, Mary Greene Hubbard, was the second wife of Russell Sturgis, an American merchant and banker who was the head of Baring Brothers in London.[8] Together, they were the parents of a son and a daughter:[4]

In 1920, he purchased Brandon Park in Suffolk.[14] He died at Turleigh Mill in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire on 18 December 1928.[15]

Descendants

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Through his daughter Anne, he was a grandfather of Vice Admiral Sir Michael Villiers, the Fourth Sea Lord and Vice Controller of the Navy.[12]

Appointments

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Obituary: Sir W. F. Haynes Smith". The Times. 19 December 1928. p. 14.
  2. ^ a b Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland, for ...: Including All the Titled Classes. S. Low, Marston & Company. 1906. p. 860. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  3. ^ Scott-Keltie, J. (2016). The Statesman's Year-Book. Springer. p. 223. ISBN 978-0-230-25320-9. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  4. ^ a b "NEW GOVERNOR OF THE BAHAMAS.; Sir William Haynes-Smith Expected to Arrived Soon at Nassau". The New York Times. 27 January 1895. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  5. ^ "NEW GOVERNOR OF THE BAHAMAS; Sir William Haynes-Smith Arrives on the Teutonic -- Interested in the Fourth's Celebration". The New York Times. 4 July 1895. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Sir William Frederick Haynes-Smith". The Colonies and India. 4 December 1897. p. 11. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  7. ^ Cave.), Sylvanus Urban (pseud van Edward (1867). Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer. Edward Cave. p. 809. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  8. ^ Boit, Robert Apthorp (1915). Chronicles of the Boit family and their descendants and of other allied families. Boston: S. J. Parkhill & Company. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  9. ^ Hollinghurst, Alan (9 October 2008). "Don't Ask Henry: Sissiness". London Review of Books. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  10. ^ "HAYNES-SMITH -- STURGIS". The New York Times. 23 June 1924. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  11. ^ "TABLE GOSSIP". The Boston Globe. 15 June 1924. p. 70. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  12. ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 799. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  13. ^ "Obituary: Mr. E. A. Villiers". 27 September 1923. p. 12.
  14. ^ "COLLEGE LAND FOR SALE". The Times. 17 June 1920. p. 4. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  15. ^ "SIR W. F. H. SMITH". The Guardian. 19 December 1928. p. 12. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  16. ^ "Antigua and Barbuda". Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  17. ^ "Bahamas". Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  18. ^ "Leeward Islands". Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  19. ^ "Cyprus". Retrieved 18 June 2012.