Robert Samuel Clive Abel Smith, who has died aged 85, was a scion of that landed gentry family, and a third cousin of Her Majesty The Queen.
He was born 17 April, 1936, a son of Robert Eustace Abel Smith [1909- killed in action at Dunkirk, 1940], by his wife the former Mary Sidney Clive [1910-90], scion of that landed family; and married in 1989, as her fourth husband, the Hon Elizabeth Sophia Sidney [1941-2016], former wife of [1] George Silver Oliver Annesley Colthurst, [2] Sir Edward Wakefield, 2nd Baronet, [3] Capt James Silvester Rattray, 28th Chief of that name, and daughter of the 1st Viscount De L'Isle, VC, KG [1909-91], and his wife the former Hon Jacqueline Vereker [1914-62], scion of the Viscounts Gort.
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