Charles_Howard_Smith

Charles Howard Smith

Charles Howard Smith

British diplomat (1888–1942)

For the British trade union leader, see Charles Howard Smith (trade unionist).

Charles Howard Smith CMG (17 May 1888 – 23 July 1942) was a British diplomat.

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Smith was educated at Winchester and Brasenose College, Oxford, before joining the British Foreign Office in 1912.[1] He remained in the diplomatic service throughout World War I and the inter-war period, during which he was private secretary to the then Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Cecil Harmsworth MP (later Lord Harmsworth) 1920–22.[2] Smith was himself eventually appointed Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1933. In October 1939 he took up the position of Minister to Copenhagen,[3] but was forced to leave upon the German invasion of Denmark in April 1940. Following his departure from Copenhagen he became the first British Minister to Reykjavik.[4] He died in his post in July 1942.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Kaarsted, Tage; Great Britain and Denmark 1914-1920; Odense, 1979: 164
  2. [2]
    SMITH, Charles Howard, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014), accessed 19 October 2015
  3. [3]
    The London Gazette, 31 October 1939
  4. [4]
    Kaarsted, 1979: 164
  5. [5]
    The London Gazette, 11 May 1943
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