Men-at-the-Bar/Smith, Cecil

by Joseph Foster

Smith, Cecil, B.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1848, J.P. Somerset, went the Western circuit, chairman Board of Guardians Taunton Union, etc., author of Birds of Somerset and Birds of Guernsey, a student of the Inner Temple 19 April, 1849 (then aged 22), called to the bar 7 June, 1852 (only son of Rev. Cecil R. Smith, of Lydeard House, Taunton, Somerset); born 31 May, 1826; married 28 Sept., 1858, Amelia, dau. of Sir Peter Stafford Carey, of Guernsey; she died 18 Dec., 1880, leaving issue (see Foster's Our Noble and Gentle Families).

Lydeard House, Taunton; Oxford and Cambridge Club.