Hugh Smith (priest)

Hugh Thomas Smith, OBE,[1] AKC was Chaplain-General of Prisons from 1946 to 1961.[2]

Smith was born in 1896, educated at King's College London and ordained in 1928. After a curacy at St Katherine Coleman, Hammersmith he became a prison chaplain, serving at Leeds, Parkhurst, Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubs before his years as head of the service.

Notes
  1. London Gazette
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 p. 913 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X


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