Frederick Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead

Frederick William Robin Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead (17 April 1936 – 16 February 1985) was British writer, historian and hereditary peer. Smith, the grandson of a British Lord Chancellor, succeeded to the Earldom upon his father's death in 1975.

For other people named Fred Smith, see Fred Smith (disambiguation).

The Right Honourable

The Earl of Birkenhead
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
10 June 1975 – 16 February 1985
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded byThe 2nd Earl of Birkenhead
Succeeded byPeerage extinct
Personal details
Born17 April 1936
Died16 February 1985

Publications

Writing under his pen name of Robin Furneaux (Viscount Furneaux was his courtesy title prior to his father's death), Lord Birkenhead won the Heinemann Award in 1975 for William Wilberforce (ISBN 9781573833431), his biography of the antislavery campaigner. He also was known for his 1970 book The Amazon: The Story of a Great River, based on an expedition he made along the Amazon River in 1968.

Death

He died of a heart attack aged 48 whilst playing real tennis at the Leamington Spa Tennis and Squash Club.

The title became extinct upon his death.

Arms
Coat of arms of Frederick Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead
Crest
A cubit arm couped fessways vested Gules cuffed Argent the hand Proper grasping a sword erect also Argent pommel and hilt Or.
Escutcheon
Ermine on a pale Gules between four cross crosslets of the second a like cross Or.
Supporters
Dexter a griffin Or wings per fess Or and Sable, sinister a lion Azure charged on the shoulder with a crozier Or.
Motto
Faber Meæ Fortunæ [1]
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith		 Earl of Birkenhead
1975–1985		 Extinct

References
  1. Burke's Peerage. 1959.
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