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Friday, November 28, 2025

Smith/Grubb engagement

 The engagement was announced 28 November, 2025, between Samuel Geoffrey Gladstone Smith (born December, 1988), the only son of Humphrey Richard Woollcombe Smith (born 12 December, 1944), of Oxton Hall, Tadcaster, and his wife the former Julia Carlotta Gladstone (born 16 January, 1956), scion of the Gladstone landed gentry family of Capenoch, & Katharine Rosanna Alexandra Grubb (born 30 September, 1992), daughter of Anthony Arbuthnot Watkins Grubb (born 6 May, 1950), of West Sussex, and his former wife Mrs Jennifer Frances Dumenil (nee Wilson, born 23 June, 1956), of West Sussex.

Samuel Smith is heir to the Samuel Smith's Brewery, Tadcaster, and descends paternally from the Woollcombe landed gentry family, and maternally from the Gladstone landed family of Capenoch.

Katharine Grubb is descended from the Arbuthnot landed family, and numerous other LG families.

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