1907
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(Superintendent Registrar of births, etc.).
Son of Thomas and Jane Smith of Stone, Staffs., where he was born 1 April 1847 and a member of a branch of the family which had had a long connection with that town. Formerly a Trade Union Secretary, he became Secretary of the Leic. Liberal Association in 1878, and was later appointed Superintendent Registrar of births, etc., Leic. district. During the great war he was for a time chairman of the Leic. Munitions Tribunal, and in recognition for this and other services to the town as Labour correspondent to the Board of Trade, arbitrator and concilliator under the Ministry of Munitions, he was awarded the order of O.B.E.
He entered the borough council 1 November 1892, elected an alderman 23 September 1901, placed upon the Commission of the Peace 1906 and received the Honorary Freedom of the borough with which he was presented 5 November 1918. He married at Stone 17 July 1866 Martha, daughter of Thomas Withington, a member of an old Stone family, by whom, who sur, vived him, he had issue three sons and four daughters.
AId. Smith died at his residence, St. Peter's Road, 5 December 1919, aged seventy,two, and was buried at the Welford Road Cemetery. Will proved at Leic. 14 April 1920 by Martha Smith, widow, and Thomas William Smith, boot manufacturers' association secretary, the executors. Effects £4,537 lls. lld.
