Arms of Smith: Or, a chevron cotised sable between three demi-griffins couped of the last the two in chief respecting each other[1]
Colonel Abel Henry Smith (6 December 1862 – 10 November 1930)[2] was a British Conservative Party politician and an English landowner of the Smith banking family.
After serving as a sergeant in the Eton College Rifle Volunteers, in 1885 he was commissioned into the part-time Hertfordshire Yeomanry in which his father had served. He was promoted to captain in command of C Troop in 1889 and commanded B Squadron as a major from 1896 to 1901. He then served as second-in-command under the Earl of Essex. On 12 April 1913 he took over as commanding officer with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He mobilised the regiment on the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, but was not passed fit for overseas service when the regiment embarked for Egypt. Instead he formed and trained the regiment's second line unit in East Anglia until 1916, when he was medically downgraded further and took over command of the regimental depot at Hertford until early 1917. He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry on 26 September 1916, and remained joint Hon Colonel when it merged into the 86th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, after the war.[6][7]
After his death in 1930, aged 67, the contents of the family's stately home were dispersed, and the building rented out.[3]
References
^Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.223, Smith/Carington, Baron Carrington; p.145, Smith, Baron Bicester, both descendants of the banker Abel Smith II (1717–1788)
^Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 295, 402. ISBN0-900178-27-2.
^Lt-Col J.D. Sainsbury, 'The Hertfordshire Yeomanry: An Illustrated History 1794–1920', Welwyn: Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Historical Trust/Hart Books, 1994, ISBN 0-948527-03-X, pp. 127, 132, 201–2, 219.
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