Willie Reardon Smith
Sir Willie Reardon-Smith, 2nd Baronet (26 May 1887–24 November 1950), was a 20th-century British shipowner.
Life
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The elder son of Sir William Reardon Smith, 1st Baronet,[1] and his wife Ellen Hamlyn (1857–1939), he assumed the additional surname of Reardon by Deed Poll in 1929. Reardon-Smith succeeded his father as owner of the South Wales shipping company Reardon Smith Line, and served as a Justice of the Peace for Glamorgan.
A director of Cardiff Docks, the London Assurance Company and many shipping companies, Sir Willie served as High Sheriff of Glamorgan (1946/47), being appointed OStJ and was a Trustee of the National Museum of Wales.[2]
Family
[edit]Sir Willie married Elizabeth Wakely in 1910, having four sons and a daughter, including Major Sir William Reardon-Smith, 3rd Baronet (1911–1995), late 34th LAA Regt (TA), who succeeded him in the baronetcy.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ www.jstor.org
- ^ P M Heaton (1984), Reardon Smith Line; the History of a South Wales Shipping Venture
- ^ www.burkespeerage.com