William Frederick Danvers Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden DL, known as Frederick Smith, was an English hereditary peer, businessman and politician. He studied at Eton and New College, Oxford.
"Head of the greatest publishing house in Christendom" — Smith as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, December 1904
Monument to Smith in the gardens of Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
Viscount Hambleden
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Viscount Hambleden, of Hambleden in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1891 for Emily Danvers Smith, in honour of her deceased husband, the bu
Frederick Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden
…Yeomanry during the Boer War. Smith was made Honorary Colonel of the Royal Devon Yeomanry Artillery in 1922. He succeeded his mother, Emily Smith, as Viscount Hambleden following her death in 1913. He married Esther Georgiana Caroline née Gore, a daughter of Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran. Smith was succeeded by their…
Emily, 1st Viscountess Hambleden, and her daughter (Richard Buckner)