Charles Howard Smith

Charles Howard Smith
CMG
British Minister to Denmark
In office
1939–1940
Preceded by The Hon. Sir Patrick Ramsay
Succeeded by Sir Alec Randall
British Minister to Iceland
In office
1940–1942
Succeeded by Sir Gerald Shepherd
Personal details
Born (1888-05-17)17 May 1888
Died 23 July 1942(1942-07-23)
Nationality British
Occupation Diplomat

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

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. Kaarsted, Tage; Great Britain and Denmark 1914-1920; Odense, 1979: 164
  2. SMITH, Charles Howard, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014), accessed 19 October 2015
  3. The London Gazette, 31 October 1939
  4. Kaarsted, 1979: 164
  5. The London Gazette, 11 May 1943
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
The Hon. Sir Patrick Ramsay
British Minister to Denmark
1939–1940
Succeeded by
Sir Alec Randall
Preceded by
New Title
British Minister to Iceland
1940–1942
Succeeded by
Sir Gerald Shepherd


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