12. Arthur Lionel Forster Smith 1880 [1464]

PARENT 11 Mary Florence Baird 1855 [1126]

ARTHUR LIONEL FORSTER SMITH was born in Baden Baden, Germany on the 16 August 1880.

He was an educationalist and from the little information obtained about him, it appears that he, like his father, taught at Oxford.

Arthur was awarded an Order of the British Empire ( CBE) in the 1927 Honours list. The awarding of the CBE was first established in 1917 and the award itself is compiled of six different levels, these being :

1/ Knight/ Dame Grand Cross (GBE),

2/ &3/ Knight/ Dame Commander (KBE/DBE),

4/ Commander (CBE),

5/ Officer (OBE),

6/ Member (MBE)

He married Mary Wilson in 1934.