Edwin Rodney Smith, Baron Smith

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(10 May 1914 – 1 July 1998) was a British surgeon. He was appointed a

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(KBE) in the

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and created a

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as Baron Smith, of Marlow in the County of Buckinghamshire on 8 July 1978. He served as president of the

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between 1978 and 1980. He was a strong

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player.

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1914 births 1998 deaths Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Crossbench life peers Presidents of the Royal Society of Medicine 20th-century British surgeons Life peers created by Elizabeth II {{Life-peer-stub