Rodney Smith, Baron Smith

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Edwin Rodney Smith, Baron Smith

FRCS (10 May 1914 – 1 July 1998) was a British surgeon.[1][2]

He was appointed a

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1975 New Year Honours[3] and created a life peer as Baron Smith, of Marlow in the County of Buckinghamshire on 8 July 1978.[4] He served as president of the Royal Society of Medicine
between 1978 and 1980.

He was a strong bridge player.[5]

Coat of arms of Rodney Smith, Baron Smith
Crest
An eagle close reguardant Sable beaked and legged Or holding in the dexter claw a bugle horn Or by its strings Sable.
Escutcheon
Gules in chief two fleams the blades outwards and in base a lyre Or a border Ermine.
Supporters
Dexter a Burmese cat, sinister a greyhound Sable, both collared Or each collar charged with a thistle Proper.
Motto
Satis Optima Adpetisse [6]

References

  1. ^ ‘SMITH’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 10 Sept 2013
  2. ^ "Smith, Rodney, Baron Smith of Marlow in the County of Buckinghamshire (1914 - 1998)".
  3. ^ "No. 46444". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1975. p. 8.
  4. ^ "No. 47595". The London Gazette. 18 July 1978. p. 8631.
  5. PMID 9880305
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  6. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1985.
Academic offices
Preceded by President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
1973–1977 		Succeeded by


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