Sir John Mark Frederick Smith

Awarded the compensation for two awards in Port Royal as executor of his father.

1. Son and executor of Sir John Frederick Sigismund Smith (q.v.). Army officer, military engineer, fellow of the Royal Society, an associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a member of several learned societies. Conservative MP for Chatham, 1852-3 and 1857-65. Important figure in the development of railway regulation in the 1840s: he was inspector-general of railways, 1840-1841.

2. The will of Sir John Mark Frederic [sic] Smith K.H. late of 62 Pembridge Villas Notting Hill who died 20/11/1874 was proved  11/12/1874 by Hannah Ann Smith (otherwise Marshall) spinster, the sole executor, effects under £3000.

T71/ Port Royal nos. 95 and 105. There is confusion in the Parliamentary Papers, which gives him as 'Sir Frederick Smith' in the former case and as two men, 'Sir John Mark' and 'Frederick Smith' in the latter. T71/1195 gives the address of 'Sir Frederick Smith' as Belgrave Square. Sir John Mark Frederick Smith appeared as 'Sir Frederick Smith', for example in the 'Report of Lieut. Col. Sir Frederick Smith and Professor Barlow to the Right Honorable the Earl of Ripon, President of the Board of Trade, on the Atmospheric Railway' (1842).

1. R. H. Vetch, ‘Smith, Sir John Mark Frederick (1790–1874)’, rev. James Falkner, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004); online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25858, accessed 12 Aug 2012].

2. National Probate Calendar 1874.