Vivian Smith, 1st Baron Bicester

Vivian Hugh Smith, 1st Baron Bicester
Born	9 December 1867
Died	17 February 1956
Education	Eton College Trinity College, Cambridge
Occupation	Banker
Spouse(s)	Lady Sybil Mary McDonnell
Children	Randal Smith, 2nd Baron Bicester Victoria Alexandrina Vivian Smith Mary Constance Vivian Smith Stephen Edward Vivian Smith Joyce Sybil Vivian Smith Honor Mildred Vivian Smith Hugh Adeane Vivian Smith
Parent(s)	Hugh Colin Smith Constance Maria Josepha (Adeane) Smith
Relatives	John Abel Smith (paternal grandfather) William Randal McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim (father-in-law)

Vivian Hugh Smith, 1st Baron Bicester (9 December 1867 – 17 February 1956) was a British merchant banker.

Vivian Hugh Smith was born on 9 December 1867. He was the elder son of Hugh Colin Smith and Constance Maria Josepha (née Adeane), and grandson of John Abel Smith. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. His brother Aubrey followed the different path of joining the Royal Navy at the age of eleven and later rose to be an admiral.

Smith served as the Chairman of Yule Catto & Company Ltd, Governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation from 1914 to 1956, and a Director of Morgan Grenfell & Co. Between 1934 and 1956, he also held the honorary position of Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. On 29 June 1938 Smith was raised to the peerage as Baron Bicester, of Tusmore in the County of Oxford.

He married Lady Sybil Mary McDonnell, daughter of William Randal McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim, in 1897. They had seven children:

He died in February 1956, at the age of eighty-eight, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Randall. His wife died in 1959.

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