William Haynes-Smith

Sir William Frederick Haynes-Smith KCMG (26 June 1839 – 18 December 1928) was an English colonial administrator in the British Empire.[1]

Sir William Haynes-Smith KCMG
High Commissioner of Cyprus
In office 23 April 1898 – 17 October 1904
Preceded by	Sir Walter Joseph Sendall
Succeeded by	Sir Charles King-Harman
Governor of the Bahamas
In office 1895–1898
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Sir Ambrose Shea
Succeeded by	Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter
Governor of Antigua and Barbuda
In office 1888–1895
Preceded by	Sir Charles Mitchell
Succeeded by	Sir Francis Fleming
Acting Governor of British Guiana
In office 26 April 1884 – 1884
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Sir Henry Turner Irving
Succeeded by	Sir Henry Turner Irving
Attorney General of British Guiana
In office 1874–1888
Preceded by	Joseph Trounsell Gilbert
Succeeded by	John Worrell Carrington
Personal details
Born	William Frederick Haynes-Smith 26 June 1839 Blackheath, Kent
Died	18 December 1928 (aged 89) Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
Spouse(s)	Ellen Parkinson White ​ ​ (m. 1867; died 1923)​
Relations	Michael Villiers (grandson) Sir Alfred Lucie-Smith (brother)
Parents	Sir John Lucie-Smith Marie van Waterschoodt

Early life

Haynes-Smith was born in Blackheath, Kent on 26 June 1839. He was the fourth son of Sir John Lucie-Smith, the Chief Justice of Jamaica, and the former Marie van Waterschoodt (the eldest daughter of Jean R. van Waterschoodt).[2] Among his siblings was older brother Sir Alfred Lucie-Smith, who was also a colonial judge who married Meta Mary Ross (a daughter of Sir David Palmer Ross).[3]

Career

He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1863, and shortly after was sent to British Guiana as Solicitor-General.[3] In 1874, he was appointed Attorney-General. A decade later, he served as acting Governor for a few months, which he also did 1887.[4] In November 1888, he was appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands, followed by a transfer to the Bahamas in 1895.[5][6][7] He served as High Commissioner of Cyprus from 1898 to 1904.[1]

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1887, and knighted in the same order in 1890.[1]

Personal life

Photograph of Howard Sturgis and his son, William Haynes-Smith on the steps at Queen's Acres, Windsor, before 1920.

In 1867, he was married to Ellen Parkinson White (1838–1923) at Tunbridge Wells.[8] Ellen was a daughter of English-born James Thomas White (son of Dr. Andrew White FRCS) and Anne Gordon Hubbard (daughter of John Hubbard and Jane (née Parkinson) Hubbard). Ellen's aunt, Mary Greene Hubbard, was the second wife of Russell Sturgis, an American merchant and banker who was the head of Baring Brothers in London.[9] Together, they were the parents of a son and a daughter:[5]

• William Haynes-Smith (1871–1937), who was the partner of writer Howard Sturgis (a son of Russell Sturgis from his third wife) until his death in 1920.[10] In 1924, when both were in their 50s, he married Alice Maud Russell Sturgis (1868–1964), a daughter of American architect John Hubbard Sturgis and the niece of his later partner.[11][12]
• 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 Ernest Villiers, MP for Brighton (and husband of Hon. Elaine Guest, daughter of Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne).[13] He was a grandson of Thomas Hyde Villiers, great-grandson of the Hon. George Villiers, and a 2x great-grandson of Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon.[14]

In 1920, he purchased Brandon Park in Suffolk.[15] He died at Turleigh Mill in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire on 18 December 1928.[16]

Descendants

Through his daughter Anne, he was a grandfather of Vice Admiral Sir Michael Villiers, the Fourth Sea Lord and Vice Controller of the Navy.[13]

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[17]
• 1895–1898 Governor of the Bahamas[18] and of the Leeward Islands[19]
• 1898–1904 High Commissioner of Cyprus[20]

References

1. "Obituary: Sir W. F. Haynes Smith". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 19 December 1928. p. 14.
2. Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. p. 1232. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
3. Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland, for ...: Including All the Titled Classes. S. Low, Marston & Company. 1906. p. 860. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
4. Scott-Keltie, J. (2016). The Statesman's Year-Book. Springer. p. 223. ISBN 978-0-230-25320-9. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
5. "NEW GOVERNOR OF THE BAHAMAS.; Sir William Haynes-Smith Expected to Arrived Soon at Nassau". The New York Times. 27 January 1895. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
6. "NEW GOVERNOR OF THE BAHAMAS; Sir William Haynes-Smith Arrives on the Teutonic -- Interested in the Fourth's Celebration". The New York Times. 4 July 1895. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
7. "Sir William Frederick Haynes-Smith". The Colonies and India. 4 December 1897. p. 11. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
8. Cave.), Sylvanus Urban (pseud van Edward (1867). Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer. Edward Cave. p. 809. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
9. Boit, Robert Apthorp (1915). Chronicles of the Boit family and their descendants and of other allied families. Boston: S. J. Parkhill & Company. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
10. Hollinghurst, Alan (9 October 2008). "Don't Ask Henry: Sissiness". London Review of Books. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
11. "HAYNES-SMITH -- STURGIS". The New York Times. 23 June 1924. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
12. "TABLE GOSSIP". The Boston Globe. 15 June 1924. p. 70. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
13. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 799. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
14. "Obituary: Mr. E. A. Villiers". 27 September 1923. p. 12.
15. "COLLEGE LAND FOR SALE". The Times. 17 June 1920. p. 4. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
16. "SIR W. F. H. SMITH". The Guardian. 19 December 1928. p. 12. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
17. "Antigua and Barbuda". Retrieved 18 June 2012.
18. "Bahamas". Retrieved 18 June 2012.
19. "Leeward Islands". Retrieved 18 June 2012.
20. "Cyprus". Retrieved 18 June 2012.