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Born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 12 April 1889, the only son of Hugh Arthur Nind Smith, a banker, and Charlotte Millicent Smith of Birmingham, Hugh was educated at Shrewsbury School (1902-1908) before he achieved a 4th class degree in Modern History at Corpus in 1911: he was college Secretary of Athletics (1911), Secretary of the, Pelican Essay Club (1910), President of the Owlets (1910) and Secretary of the Debating Society (1910). He joined the Colonial Civil Service and was District Officer in Northern Nigeria: he also wrote Verses (published posthumously in 1919). As a member of the University Contingent of the Officers’ Training Corps he was enlisted in April 1915, served in France and was killed in action at High Wood, the Somme, on 18 August 1916 (aged 27).