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Month: July 2017

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Charles Dickens – The Malton Connection

Posted on 31st July 20172nd September 2017by Steve Smithson

Charles Dickens’ close link with Malton stemmed from his friendship with Charles Smithson, a member of a Solicitor’s family who practised in Chancery Lane, Malton and shared also in the London firm Smithson and Dunn. Charles Smithson was the eleventh child and sixth son of Richard and Sarah Smithson. He was baptised at St Michael’s […]

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Smithson surname distribution in the 1881 census

Posted on 24th July 20174th September 2017by Steve Smithson

Figures are shown in the Table below indicating the percentages of Smithsons within individual Counties and as a percentage of all Smithsons within England, Scotland and Wales. The percentage of each County as a total of the overall population is also shown as some Counties have far larger populations than others. Using these figures it […]

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Thomas Smithson – Mayor of Ripon, 1890 to 1892

Posted on 23rd July 20179th November 2017by Steve Smithson

His badge on the baldric bears the Arms of the Butchers’ Company, with the crest of the Smithson family – a squirrel sejant cracking a nut ppr. – and the motto “Nihil sine labore.” Arms: Az. two slaughter axes indorsed in saltire ar. handled or, betw. three bulls’ heads, couped of the second, armed of […]

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Smithsons’ Field, Radley College, Oxford

Posted on 15th July 20175th September 2017by Steve Smithson

The two new pitches at the extreme north end of the playing fields, adjacent to Little Wood, were named Smithsons' Field in recognition of Bertram Harold Smithson and his son, Malcolm, who were consecutively Head Groundsman from February 1946 to October 1995. They were the father and younger brother respectively of Gerald Arthur Smithson, ex […]

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