DEATH OF A PEER
VISCOUNT HAMBLEDEN British Official "Wireless Reed. 11.15 a.m. RUGBY, Sunday. The death has occurred of Viscount Hambleden, aged 60. He was a son of the late Rt. Hon. W. H. Smith, for several years leader of the House of Commons.
William Frederick Danvers Smith, second Viscount Hembleden, was the eldest son of the Rt. Hon. William Henry Smith and the Ist Viscountess Hambleden. He succeeded his mother in 1913. He married Lady Esther Gore, third daughter of the fifth Earl of Arran, and there are three sons and two daughters. Viscount Hambleden was educated at Eton, and at New College. Oxford. He was a colonel of the Royal First Devon Yeomanry. He was Conservative M.P. for Strand from 1891 to 1910. He served in the European War, in Gallipoli and Egypt, and was mentioned in dispatches. The heir is the Hon. William Henry Smith, who is 25 years of age.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 383, 18 June 1928, Page 1
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