Leicester Smyth

Sir Leicester Smyth
Born	25 October 1829
Died	27 January 1891 (aged 61) London, United Kingdom
Buried at	Gopsall, Leicestershire
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Commands held	Western District Cape Colony Southern District
Battles/wars	Crimean War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George

Lieutenant General Sir Leicester Smyth (formerly Curzon-Howe) KCB KCMG (25 October 1829 – 27 January 1891) was Governor of Gibraltar.

Military career

Born the seventh son of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe and educated at Eton College, Smyth was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1845.^[1] He served in the Basuto War in 1852.^[1]

In 1854 he was appointed aide-de-camp to Lord Raglan and was present at the Battle of Alma, the Battle of Inkerman and the Siege of Sevastopol.^[1] He subsequently served as ADC to General Codington.^[1]

He was made Assistant Military Secretary in the Ionian Islands in 1856, Military Secretary in Ireland in 1865 and Deputy Quartermaster in Ireland in 1872.^[1]

In 1877 he became General Officer Commanding Western District and in 1880 GOC Cape Colony.^[1] He was acting High Commissioner for Southern Africa from 1882 to 1883, GOC Southern District from 1889 to 1890 (in which capacity he hosted a visit by the Shah of Persia^[2]) and Governor of Gibraltar from 1890 until his death in 1891, aged 61.^[1]

Family

In 1866 he married Alicia Maria Smyth and the following year adopted his wife's maiden name as his own surname: they had no children.^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Leicester Smyth at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
↑ Rambling Recollections By Henry Drummond Wolff Page 364 BiblioBazaar, 2009, ISBN 978-1-117-69655-3

Military offices
Preceded by Henry Smyth	GOC Western District 1877–1880	Succeeded by Thomas Pakenham
Preceded by Sir George Willis	GOC Southern District 1889–1890	Succeeded by The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Government offices
Preceded by Sir Arthur Hardinge	Governor of Gibraltar 1890–1891	Succeeded by Sir Lothian Nicholson

Governors of Gibraltar

	Spanish period (1462-1704) De Salinas Habsburg occupation (1704) Hesse-Darmstadt Nugent Shrimpton Elliott Stanwix Treaty of Utrecht (1713) Portmore Kane Clayton Sabine Hargrave Bland Fowke Tyrawley Home Cornwallis Boyd Eliott Boyd Rainsford O'Hara Kent and Strathearn Fox Dalrymple Cradock Campbell Don Chatham Don Crown colony (1830) Houston Woodford Wilson Gardiner Fergusson Codrington Airey Williams Napier of Magdala Adye Hardinge Smyth Nicholson Biddulph White Forestier-Walker Hunter Miles Smith-Dorrien Monro Godley Harington Ironside Liddell Gort Mason-Macfarlane Eastwood Anderson MacMillan Redman Keightley Ward Lathbury Begg Grandy Jackson British dependent territory (1981) Williams Terry Reffell Chapple White Luce Durie British Overseas Territory (2002) Richards Fulton Johns Dutton Davis

Governors of the Cape Colony

	British occupation 1806–1814	David Baird Henry George Grey Du Pre Alexander Henry George Grey John Francis Cradock Robert Meade

	British colony 1814–1910	Charles Somerset Rufane Shaw Donkin Richard Bourke Galbraith Lowry Cole Thomas Francis Wade Benjamin D'Urban George Thomas Napier Peregrine Maitland Henry Pottinger Harry Smith George Cathcart Charles Henry Darling George Grey Robert Henry Wynyard Philip Edmond Wodehouse Charles Craufurd Hay Henry Barkly Henry Bartle Frere Henry Hugh Clifford George Cumine Strahan Hercules Robinson Leicester Smyth Henry D'Oyley Torrens Henry Augustus Smyth Henry Brougham Loch William Gordon Cameron Hercules Robinson William Howley Goodenough Alfred Milner William Francis Butler Walter Hely-Hutchinson Henry Jenner Scobell Those in italics were Acting Governors

State President of the South African Republic State President of the Orange Free State Prime Minister of the Cape Colony Prime Minister of Natal

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