Charles Howard Smith

Charles Howard Smith CMG (17 May 1888 – 23 July 1942) was a British diplomat.

Charles Howard Smith CMG
British Minister to Denmark
In office 1939–1940
Preceded by	The Hon. Sir Patrick Ramsay
Succeeded by	Sir Alec Randall
British Minister to Iceland
In office 1940–1942
Succeeded by	Sir Gerald Shepherd
Personal details
Born	17 May 1888
Died	23 July 1942
Nationality	British
Occupation	Diplomat

Smith was educated at Winchester and Brasenose College, Oxford, before joining the British Foreign Office in 1912.[1] He remained in the diplomatic service throughout World War I and the inter-war period, during which he was private secretary to the then Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Cecil Harmsworth MP (later Lord Harmsworth) 1920–22.[2] Smith was himself eventually appointed Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1933. In October 1939 he took up the position of Minister to Copenhagen,[3] but was forced to leave upon the German invasion of Denmark in April 1940. Following his departure from Copenhagen he became the first British Minister to Reykjavik.[4] He died in his post in July 1942.[5]

References

1. Kaarsted, Tage; Great Britain and Denmark 1914-1920; Odense, 1979: 164
2. SMITH, Charles Howard, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014), accessed 19 October 2015
3. The London Gazette, 31 October 1939
4. Kaarsted, 1979: 164
5. The London Gazette, 11 May 1943

External links

• Portraits of Charles Howard Smith (1888-1942), Minister in Reykjavik, Iceland at the National Portrait Gallery, London