Sidney Maynard Smith

Sidney Maynard Smith CB KStJ FRCS (20 September 1875 – 18 March 1928) was a British surgeon and freemason.[1][2][3][4]

Smith was the son of W.H. Smith, a civil engineer attached to 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 Boer War as a surgeon. For service during the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was awarded the CB by Britain and the croix de guerre by France; he was thrice mentioned in dispatches. He was appointed consulting surgeon to the British Fifth Army in 1916, and later consulting surgeon to 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 freemason he was Grand Deacon of the Grand Lodge of England.

In 1917, he married Isabel Mary Pitman, daughter of Frederick I. Pitman. They had a daughter Isabel Valentine Maynard Smith (born 1919), and a son, the biologist John Maynard Smith (1920-2004). In later life John Maynard Smith described his father as being "a poor boy made good" who married into "landed gentry", and recalled of their relationship prior to Sidney's death when John was eight years old "I hardly knew him; we saw him sort 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. ↑ "SIDNEY MAYNARD SMITH, C.B., F.R.C.S". Br Med J. 1 (3507): 526–7. March 1928. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3507.526. PMC 2455606Freely accessible. PMID 20773785.
  3. ↑ Epsom College Archive: Biographies of Old Epsomiams: Smith, Sidney Maynard
  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. ↑ Obituary of Percy Montague Smith
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 29848. p. 11839. 5 December 1916. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 30450. p. 2. 1 January 1918. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  8. ↑ http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/honours_and_awards/person.asp?p=440488
  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
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