Sir William Frederick Haynes-Smith (26 June 1839 – 18 December 1928) was an English colonial administrator in the

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Early life

Haynes-Smith was born in

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on 26 June 1839. He was the fifth son of John Lucie Smith L.L.D. and Martha Bean. He was Uncle to Sir

Alfred Lucie-Smith Sir Alfred van Waterschoodt Lucie-Smith (9 January 1854 – 3 June 1947) was a British colonial judge. Lucie-Smith was born in Demerara, British Guiana, the second son of Sir John Lucie-Smith, later the Chief Justice of Jamaica, and his wife Ma ...

, who was also a colonial judge who married first Rose Alice Emerentiana Aves and second Meta Mary Ross (a daughter of Sir David Palmer Ross).

Career

He was called to the Bar by the

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in 1863, and shortly after was sent to British Guiana as Solicitor-General. In 1874, he was appointed Attorney-General. A decade later, he served as acting Governor for a few months, which he also did 1887. In November 1888, he was appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands, followed by a transfer to the Bahamas in 1895. He served as High Commissioner of Cyprus from 1898 to 1904. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1887, and knighted in the same order in 1890.

Personal life

Howard Sturgis and William Haynes Smith on the steps with two dogs at Queen's Acres, Windsor, before 1920

In 1867, he was married to Ellen Parkinson White (1838–1923) at

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. Ellen was a daughter of English-born James Thomas White (son of Dr. Andrew White

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) and Anne Gordon Hubbard (daughter of John Hubbard and Jane (née Parkinson) Hubbard). Ellen's aunt, Mary Greene Hubbard, was the second wife of

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, an American merchant and banker who was the head of Baring Brothers in London. Together, they were the parents of a son and a daughter: * William Haynes-Smith (1871–1937), who was the partner of writer

Howard Sturgis Howard Overing Sturgis (January 30, 1855 – February 7, 1920) was an English-language novelist who wrote about same-sex love. Of American parentage, he lived and worked in Britain. Early life "Howdie," as he was known to his intimates, was bo ...

(a son of

from his third wife) until his death in 1920. In 1924, when both were in their 50s, he married Alice Maud Russell Sturgis (1868–1964), a daughter of American architect

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and the niece of his later partner. * Anne Haynes-Smith (1870–1963), who married Rear Admiral Edward Cecil Villiers, a son of Rev. Charles Villiers and Florence Mary Tyssen-Amherst. His brother was

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, MP for Brighton (and husband of Hon. Elaine Guest, daughter of Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne). He was a grandson of

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, great-grandson of the Hon. George Villiers, and a 2x great-grandson of

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. In 1920, he purchased Brandon Park in Suffolk. He died at Turleigh Mill in

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, Wiltshire on 18 December 1928.

Descendants

Through his daughter Anne, he was a grandfather of Vice Admiral Sir

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, the Fourth Sea Lord and Vice Controller of the Navy.

Appointments

* 1874–1888 Attorney General of British Guiana. * 1884 Governor of British Guiana, acting for Sir Henry Turner Irving * 1888–1895 Governor of Antigua and Barbuda * 1895–1898 Governor of the

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and of the Leeward Islands * 1898–1904 High Commissioner of Cyprus

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Haynes-Smith, William 1839 births 1928 deaths Members of the Middle Temple Antigua and Barbuda politicians British colonial governors and administrators in Asia Attorneys-General of British Guiana Governors of British Guiana British governors of the Bahamas Governors of the Leeward Islands Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George British Cyprus people British colonial governors and administrators in Europe