SMITH, Leonard Edward

1896 - c.1981

Leonard Edward Smith was born at Kensington, London on 21 July 1896, son of George Edward Smith (1859-22 December 1907), a surveyor for the G.P.O., and his wife Ada née Bryant (1860-3 September 1951), who married at St George's Hanover Square, London in 1884. By 1900 they had moved to Ipswich where Leonard was a 4-year-old, living at 181 Norwich Road, Ipswich with his parents, 41-year-old George and 41-year-old Ada, with three siblings Ruby Ada Mary 11, George Cyril 9, who were both born at Hammersmith, and Hilda Gladys 1, who was born at Ipswich. Leonard was educated at St Matthew's Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Ipswich and in 1911, Leonard was a 14-year-old law clerk, living at 311 Norwich Road, Ipswich with his widowed mother, now a boarding housekeeper, with siblings Cyril 19, and Hilda 11. Leonard married at Wandsworth, London in 1917, Bertha Amy Anne Bode (5 January 1889-25 October 1982). Sometime before 1939 he seems to have assumed the name MacIntyre-Smith and as Leonard MacIntyre-Smith in 1939, a portrait painter, living at 19 Kelvin Road, Ipswich with his wife Bertha and daughter Dorothea Louise [Rackham] (16 June 1929-2 March 2008). His date of death was probably 4 November 1981, and his wife Bertha was a widow of Milton Close, 78 Swaffield Road, London SW 18 when she died in 1982.