Aubrey Smith (other)
Aubrey Smith may refer to: * Aubrey Henry Smith (1814–1891), lawyer, U.S. district attorney and railroad executive * Sir C. Aubrey Smith (1863–1948), English actor and cricketer * Sir Aubrey Smith (Royal Navy officer) (1872–1957), British admiral * Aubrey Smith (long jumper) (born 1988), Jamaican long jumper {{hndis, Smith, Aubrey ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aubrey Henry Smith
Aubrey Henry Smith (October 14, 1814 - April 14, 1891) was a lawyer, U.S. district attorney, and early officer of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad. Smith graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1833. He married Mary Rose (b. 1822?- ), a daughter of Robert C. Grier (1794-1870), who served as a justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1846 to 1870. On January 4, 1837, he was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, one of 15 that year. In 1838, he was assistant treasurer of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad, which, along with three other railroads, built the first rail link from Philadelphia to Baltimore. His service as an early railroad executive is noted on the 1839 Newkirk Viaduct Monument. In 1841, he purchased Printz Island, toward the eastern end of Little Tinicum Island in the Delaware River. He was a member of both the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the American Philosophical Society. In 1867, Smith pu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aubrey Smith (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir Aubrey Clare Hugh Smith KCVO KBE CB (22 September 1872 – 6 October 1957) was a Royal Navy officer who saw active service in the First World War and the Greco-Turkish War. In the mid-1920s he was Naval Representative to the League of Nations. Early life and career The son of Hugh Colin Smith (1836–1910), who later became Governor of the Bank of England, by his marriage to Constance Maria Josepha Adeane, and the grandson of John Abel Smith (1802–1871), a banker and member of parliament, the young Smith joined the Royal Navy in 1885 as a midshipman, at the age of thirteen. His older brother was Vivian Smith, who the same year left Eton and went up to Cambridge. In 1893 Smith was promoted lieutenant. On 1 June 1899, he married Elizabeth Emma Beatrice Grosvenor, a daughter of Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge, and a niece of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster. From 1908 to 1911 he was Naval Attaché at Saint Petersburg. While there, in 1909 he was a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |