Question: When did Richard Abel Smith's father die?

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 his wife
Lady May Cambridge (1906-1994), née Princess May of Teck, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and a niece of Queen Mary.
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.
Conolly Abel Smith
Vice- Admiral Sir Edward Michael Conolly Abel Smith,( 3 December 1899 – 3 December 1985) was a Royal Navy officer who served during the First and Second World Wars.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Anne Liddell-Grainger
Anne Mary Sibylla Liddell- Grainger, Baroness of Ayton( née Abel Smith; born 28 July 1932) is the mother of British politician Ian Liddell- Grainger.
Her maternal grandparents were Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone.
She was born in Kensington Palace, the daughter of Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith and Lady May Abel Smith( formerly Princess May of Teck).
She married David Liddell- Grainger, a Scottish politician, on 14 December 1957.
They divorced in 1981.
They had five children and eight grandchildren: Mrs Liddell- Grainger later became a devout Christian, and served as a missionary in Africa.
She settled in Kennington, south London, where she is engaged in Christian charity work.
She is in the line of succession to the British Throne as a great- great- granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
She is a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
Abel Smith (1717–1788)
Abel Smith (14 March 1717 – 12 July 1788) was a British Member of Parliament and one of the leading bankers of his time.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
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What is Death?,
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The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
Henry Abel Smith
Sir Henry Abel Smith, (8 March 1900 – 24 January 1993) was a British Army officer who served as Governor of Queensland, Australia.
He married Lady May Cambridge, a niece of King George V and Queen Mary.
Richard F. Abel
Richard F. Abel is a retired Brigadier General in the United States Air Force.
Abel Smith (1748–1779)
Abel Smith( 29 June 1748 – 22 January 1779) was a British politician who sat briefly in the House of Commons from 1778 to 1779.
Smith was the second son of Abel Smith, a Nottingham banker who, following his father, also called Abel, had continued developing the business into what was by the end of the century to become one of the biggest private banks in England.
The first Abel Smith had contented himself with using some of his wealth to intervene in other people's elections.
Abel the second eventually entered Parliament for a pocket borough in 1774.
Four years later, in October 1778, the young Abel could rely on the family's standing in his home city to secure election as Member of Parliament for Nottingham; however, he died only three months later.
He had married Elizabeth, the daughter of Charles Uppleby of Wootton and had one daughter.
His younger brother, Robert, followed him as MP for Nottingham, and took over the business on his father's death.
In 1796 he was raised to the peerage as Lord Carrington.
Three of Abel's other brothers also became MPs.
Abel Smith (1788–1859)
Abel Smith( 17 July 1788 – 23 February 1859) was a longtime British Member of Parliament.
He was the eighth child but eldest son of Samuel Smith, also a Member of Parliament, and nephew of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington.
The family had grown wealthy through banking in Nottingham.
Abel Smith entered Parliament in 1810 as member for Malmesbury, and subsequently also represented Wendover and Midhurst, both pocket boroughs controlled by his uncle Lord Carrington, sitting in the Commons for 20 of the last 22 years before the Great Reform Act.
He and his father were Wendover's last MPs, as they sat together as its members for the last two years before the borough's abolition.
Three years after the Reform Act, he was elected for Hertfordshire, and served another twelve years as its MP.
He was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1849.
Smith married Frances Anne Calvert, the daughter of General Sir Harry Calvert.
Their son Abel Smith also became MP for Hertfordshire.

Answer: 24 January 1993