William Haynes-Smith
Sir William Frederick Haynes-Smith (26 June 1839 – 18 December 1928) was an English colonial administrator in the British Empire. Early life. Haynes-Smith was born in Blackheath, Kent on 26 June 1839. He was the fifth son of John Lucie Smith L.L.D. and Martha Bean. He was Uncle to Sir Alfred Lucie-Smith, who was also a colonial judge who married first Rose Alice Emerentiana Aves and second Meta Mary Ross (a daughter of Sir David Palmer Ross). Career. He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1863, and shortly after was sent  to British Guiana as Solicitor-General. In 1874, he was appointed Attorney-General. A decade later, he served as acting Governor for a few months, which he also did 1887. In November 1888, he was appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands, followed by a transfer to the Bahamas in 1895. He served as High Commissioner of Cyprus from 1898 to 1904. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1887, and knighted in the same order in 1890. Personal life. In 1867, he was married to Ellen Parkinson White (1838–1923) at Tunbridge Wells . Ellen was a daughter of English-born James Thomas White (son of Dr. Andrew White FRCS) and Anne Gordon Hubbard (daughter of John Hubbard and Jane (née Parkinson) Hubbard). Ellen's aunt, Mary Greene Hubbard, was the second wife of Russell Sturgis, an American merchant and banker who was the head of Baring Brothers in London. Together, they were the parents of a son and a daughter: In 1920, he purchased Brandon Park in Suffolk. He died at Turleigh Mill in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire on 18 December 1928. Descendants. Through his daughter Anne, he was a grandfather of Vice  Admiral Sir Michael Villiers, the Fourth Sea Lord and Vice Controller of the Navy.