MR. W. H. SMITH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3001, 8 October 1891, Page 2

MR. W. H. SMITH.

(BY ELKCTIIIC TKI.EURAI'!!.— COI'YUIUIIT). London", October ti. Obituary:—Mr W. 11. Smith, ;etat (11,

Tlio Right Him. William Munry Smith, ]).C.L. (born lSij), son of William Henry Smith, bookseller. publisher, ami news assent in the Strand was lioni in London. Ho was educated at Tavistock Grammar School and afterwards joined his fathers business. Mr was returned for Westminster in ISIiS defeating Mr John Stewart Mill, ami represented it until I>SNo, During the yours 1574-7 lie was Financial Secretary tn the Treasury, after which lis succeeded Mr Ward Hunt as First Lord of the Admiralty. His sound business capacities and tlio convincing of his speeches nude liiin an important factor anion? tha Consorvativc leaders. Lu I<S7'-I, Oxford University conferred on him the degree of O.C.L. In 1885 he was returned fortius new London division of the Strmd. Up to ISSS when he became First L ird of the Treasury and loader of the House j>f C'otntnons he hold various offices, viz. : Secretary of State for War, (twice), Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Mr Smith's political character is .seon in his acts. Thus he supported Mr F'.rster s E iucition IJill, sought the reduction of taxation and endeavoured to direct attention to such social disorders as pauperism. His proposals for the establishment of a peasant proprietary in Ireland have also attracted attention.