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Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (7 December 1907 – 10 June 1975) was a British biographer and Member of the House of Lords. He is best known for writing a biography of Rudyard Kipling that was suppressed by the Kipling family for many years, and which he never lived to see in print.
Frederick William Robin Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead (17 April 1936 – 16 February 1985) was a British writer, historian and hereditary peer. He wrote under the pseudonym Robin Furneaux.
- Frederick William Robin Smith, 17 April 1936
- The 2nd Earl of Birkenhead
- 16 February 1985 (aged 48)
- Peerage extinct
- Early Life and Schooling
- Oxford
- Career as A Barrister
- Member of Parliament
- First World War
- Postwar Coalition: Lord Chancellor
- Out of Office: 1922–24
- Personal Life and Affair
- Secretary of State For India: 1924–28
- Later Life and Assessments
Smith was born at 38 Pilgrim Street, Birkenhead in Cheshire, the eldest son and second of five surviving children of Frederick Smith (1845–1888) and Elizabeth (1842–1928), daughter of Edwin Taylor a rate collector, of Birkenhead.His father had joined the family business as an estate agent, later becoming a barrister and local Tory politician. Frede...
Smith won a scholarship to University College, Liverpool, where he spent four terms (a fact he subsequently suppressed). He won a scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford, in 1891. Smith made his name as an Oxford "swell", distinguishing himself by his dark good looks, his energy, his unashamed ambition and his scathing wit. He was the dominant figure...
Having eaten his dinners at Gray's Inn and passed his bar finals with distinction in the summer of 1899, Smith was called to the Bar and finally left Oxford, and quickly built up a brilliant and lucrative practice on the Northern Circuit, initially basing himself in Liverpool.
Ambitious to enter Parliament, Smith cultivated the local Tory boss Archibald Salvidge. In 1903, Smith gave a dazzling speech in Liverpool in support of Joseph Chamberlain, who was campaigning for Tariff Reform. On the strength of this, he was selected three months later as candidate for the working-class constituency of Walton division. He campaig...
Smith had joined the Territorial Army by commission into the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, in which Churchill was already an officer, in 1913, and was a captain in the regiment before the outbreak of the First World War. On its outbreak he was placed in charge of the Government's Press Bureau, with rank of full colonel and responsibility for new...
In 1919, he was created Baron Birkenhead, of Birkenhead in the County of Chester following his appointment as Lord Chancellor by Lloyd George. At the age of 47, he was the youngest Lord Chancellor since Lord Cowper in 1707 and possibly since Judge Jeffreys (John Simon would have been younger had he accepted the post in 1915). The Morning Post comme...
Like many of the senior members of the Coalition, Birkenhead did not hold office in the Bonar Law and Baldwin governments of 1922–24. Unlike the others Birkenhead was rude and open in his contempt for the new governments. He bore no grudge against Bonar Law but criticised Leslie Wilson and Lord Curzon. He sneered that Wilson and Sir George Younger ...
Smith married Margaret Eleanor Furneaux, daughter of classical scholar Henry Furneaux, in April 1901. They had three children: 1. Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith(born 7 August 1902, died 20 October 1945) 2. Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead(born 7 December 1907, died 10 June 1975) 3. Lady Pamela Margaret Elizabeth Smith (born 16 ...
Despite winning a large majority at the 1924 election, Baldwin formed a broad new (second) government by appointing former coalitionists such as Birkenhead, Austen Chamberlain and former Liberal Winston Churchill to senior Cabinet posts; this was to discourage them from associating with Lloyd George to revive the 1916-22 Coalition. Birkenhead and C...
Birkenhead's increasingly pompous oratory caused David Low to caricature him in the 1920s as "Lord Burstinghead". After retiring from politics, he became Rector of the University of Aberdeen, a director of Tate & Lyle,[citation needed] a director of Imperial Chemical Industries, and High Steward of the University of Oxford. In a 1983 biography revi...
1 mag 2022 · Frederick, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead, was the son of Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead and Margaret Eleanor Furneaux. Education - see schools-this profile. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Earl of Birkenhead on 30th.
- December 07, 1907
- May 1, 2022
- June 10, 1975 (67)
- Kevin Lawrence Hanit
Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead was a British biographer and Member of the House of Lords. He is best known for writing a biography of Rudyard Kipling that was suppressed by the Kipling family for many years, and which he never lived to see in print.
Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (7 December 1907 – 10 June 1975) was a British biographer and Member of the House of Lords. He is best known for writing a biography of Rudyard Kipling that was suppressed by the Kipling family for many years, and which he never lived to see in print. Biography.
Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead was a British historian. He is best known for writing a controversial biography of Rudyard Kipling that was suppressed by the Kipling family for many years, and which, in fact, he never lived to see in print.
