Richard Abel Smith

Colonel Richard Francis Abel Smith (11 October 1933 - 23 December 2004) was a British Army officer.

He was the son of Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith (1900-1993) and Lady May Abel Smith (1906-1994). He was born at Kensington Palace in London, England. Richard was the second of three children and the only boy. He was 312th in the line of succession to the British Throne as a great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria.

Education

Abel Smith was educated at Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England; the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Berkshire, England; and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England.

Miliary career

He was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues). He was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Cyprus between 1957 and 1960. He was a military instructor between 1960 and 1963 at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Berkshire. He commanded the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry squadron of the Royal Yeomanry between 1967 and 1969. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Nottinghamshire between 1970 and 1991. He gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in 1979 in the service of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry Regiment. He held the office of Vice Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire between 1991 and 1999.

Marriage and Children

He married Marcia Kendrew (born 27 March 1940) on 28 April 1960 in St. Mary Abbott's Church, Kensington, London, England. They had one daughter;

* Katherine Emma Abel Smith (born 11 March 1961); married on 16 October 1980 to The Hon. Hubert Wentworth Beaumont (born 13 April 1956), first son of Rev. Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley. They had four children.

Later life

He died of a stroke at home in Blidworth Dale, Nottinghamshire, England on 23 December 2004. [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/2004_3.html] He was buried on 18 January 2005 in Papplewick, Nottinghamshire, England.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Richard Abel Smith
2= 2. Henry Abel Smith
3= 3. May Cambridge
4= 4. Francis Abel Smith
5= 5. Madeline St. Maur Seymour
6= 6. Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone
7= 7. Princess Alice of Albany
8= 8. Henry Abel Smith
9= 9. Elizabeth Mary Pym
10= 10. Henry Seymour
11= 11. Susannah Biscoe Tritton
12= 12. Francis, Duke of Teck
13= 13. Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
14= 14. Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
15= 15. Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont
16= 16. Henry Smith
17= 17. Lucy Leslie-Melville
18= 18. Francis Pym
19= 19. Jane Elizabeth Leslie-Melville
20= 20. Henry John Hyde Seymour
21= 21. Charlotte Whitcombe
22= 22. Robert Tritton
24= 24. Duke Alexander of Württemberg
25= 25. Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde
26= 26. Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
27= 27. Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
28= 28. Albert, Prince Consort
29= 29. Victoria of the United Kingdom
30= 30. George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
31= 31. Princess Helene Wilhelmine of Nassau-Weilburg