Sidney Maynard Smith

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Sidney Maynard Smith

freemason.[1][2][3][4]

Smith was the son of W. H. Smith, a civil engineer attached to the

Admiralty (not to be confused with the W. H. Smith who was First Lord of the Admiralty). He was educated at Epsom College and St Mary's Hospital Medical School, as was his older brother Percy Montague Smith (1871-1961), who was also a doctor and became FRCS.[5]

He served during the

British Second Army. For his service during the war, he was appointed Knight of Grace of the Order of St John on 1 December 1916[6] and Companion of The Order of the Bath (Military Division) on 1 January 1918[7] (recommended 23 September 1917).[8]

He became Senior Surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, London in 1922 following the retirement of Ernest Lane.

As a

Grand Lodge of England
.

In 1917, he married Isabel Mary Pitman, daughter of

Sunday lunch - literally".[9] He and his family lived at No. 49 Wimpole Street in Westminster[10]

References

  1. ^ Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E003604b.htm
  2. PMID 20773785
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  3. ^ Epsom College Archive: Biographies of Old Epsomiams: Smith, Sidney Maynard [1]
  4. ^ 'SMITH, Maynard', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 5 May 2013
  5. PMC 1969830
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  6. ^ "No. 29848". The London Gazette. 5 December 1916. p. 11839.
  7. ^ "No. 30450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1918. p. 2.
  8. ^ "Advanced Search | Australian War Memorial".
  9. ^ Interview of John Maynard Smith by Richard Dawkins: "Early childhood and a passion for natural history" Web of Stories April 1997
  10. ^ Ladies' Who's Who - Page 598 books.google.com/books?id=zu4WAQAAIAAJ