See also
| Husband: | Ronald KING-SMITH (1894-1980) | |
| Wife: | Grace BOUCHER (1902-1980) | |
| Children: | Ronald Gordon KING-SMITH (1922-2011) | |
| William John Anthony KING-SMITH (1928-2006) | ||
| Marriage | 14 Jun 1921 | St Andrew's Major, Dinas Powis, Glamorgan, Wales1 |
| St Andrew | ||
| Name: | Ronald KING-SMITH | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Alt. Name: | Roland KING-SMITH | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 6 Nov 1894 | Buckfastleigh, Devon, England2 |
| Census | 2 Apr 1911 (age 16) | Hendon, Middlesex, England3 |
| Mill Hill Public Secondary School | ||
| Occupation | 2 Apr 1911 (age 16) | school; Hendon, Middlesex, England3 |
| Enlisted (Military) | 31 Aug 1914 (age 19 yrs 9 mns) | Weymouth, Dorset, England |
| Promoted (Military) | 31 Aug 1914 (age 19) | |
| Lance Corporal | ||
| Transferred (Military) | 26 Jan 1915 (age 20) | |
| Promoted (Military) | 26 Jan 1915 (age 20) | |
| He was discharged "Free" and then commissioned in the 3rd Battn Wiltshire Regiment, as a 2nd Lieutenant | ||
| Posted (Military) | 30 May 1915 (age 20) | France |
| Baptism | 15 Apr 1917 (age 22) | Bitton, Gloucestershire, England |
| Bitton Hill House in St Mary's |
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| Gallantry Medal | 26 Mar 1918 (age 23) | D.S.O4 |
| Residence | 14 Jun 1921 (age 26) | Bitton, Gloucestershire, England1 |
| Bitton Hill House | ||
| Occupation | 14 Jun 1921 (age 26) | paper manufacturer; Bitton, Gloucestershire, England1 |
| Census | 19 Jun 1921 (age 26 yrs 8 mns) | Mullion, Cornwall, England4,5 |
| Mullion Cove Hotel Clearly they were on their honeymoon, having married 5 days earlier. |
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| Occupation | 19 Jun 1921 (age 26) | paper manufacturer; Mullion, Cornwall, England5 |
| Employment: Employer Place of Work: Bitton nr Bristol |
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| Census | 29 Sep 1939 (age 44) | Bitton, Gloucestershire, England6 |
| Homelea, Ryedown Lane | ||
| Occupation | 29 Sep 1939 (age 44) | managing director, Golden Valley paper mills; Bitton, Gloucestershire, England4,6 |
| The family ran the Golden Valley Paper Mills in Bitton, which produced fine-quality writing paper. | ||
| Gallantry Medal | M.C.4 | |
| Residence | 1943 (age 48-49) | Bitton, Gloucestershire, England4 |
| Homelea | ||
| Military Rank | Sapper | |
| Military Regiment | Motor Cycle Section, Royal Engineers | |
| Military Service No. | 32201 | |
| Military Regiment | 3rd Battn (Special Reserve) Wilts Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) | |
| Military Rank | Acting Captain | |
| He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, promoted to Lieutenant on 1 July 1917, but was serving as Acting Captain from 14 June 1916. | ||
| Trade/Skill (Military) | Local Despatch Rider, Royal Engineers in 1914 | |
| Height (Military) | 5' 9¾" | |
| Weight (Military) | 147lb | |
| Chest Size (Military) | 35½" | |
| 2½" | ||
| Eyes (Military) | grey | |
| Hair (Military) | light brown | |
| Campaign Medal | Officer's Victory Medal, British War Medal and !914-15 Star. | |
| Death | 25 Jun 1980 (age 85) | Bristol, Gloucestershire, England2 |
| Burial | 1 Jul 1980 | Bitton, Gloucestershire, England |
| The Cottage, Church Lane Buried in St Mary's |
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| Name: | Grace BOUCHER7 | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Nickname: | Gaye | |
| Father: | Arthur William BOUCHER (1870-1948) | |
| Mother: | Frances Claribel HEARD (1873-1967) | |
| Birth | 1 Jun 1902 | Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales7 |
| Census | 2 Apr 1911 (age 8) | St Andrews, Glamorgan, Wales7 |
| Wellwood Drive, Dinas Powis | ||
| Occupation | 2 Apr 1911 (age 8) | school; St Andrews, Glamorgan, Wales7 |
| Residence | 14 Jun 1921 (age 19) | Dinas Powis, Glamorgan, Wales1 |
| Overdale | ||
| Census | 19 Jun 1921 (age 19) | Mullion, Cornwall, England5 |
| Mullion Cove Hotel | ||
| Census | 29 Sep 1939 (age 37) | Bitton, Gloucestershire, England6 |
| Homelea, Ryedown Lane | ||
| Occupation | 29 Sep 1939 (age 37) | unpaid domestic duties; Bitton, Gloucestershire, England6 |
| Death | 20 Nov 1980 (age 78) | Bristol, Gloucestershire, England8 |
| Burial | 27 Nov 1980 | Bitton, Gloucestershire, England9 |
| in St Mary's | ||
| Probate | 10 Nov 1981 | Bristol, Gloucestershire, England |
| The Cottage 6 Church Lane, Bitton Avon Administration granted. Effects £3768 |
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| Name: | Ronald Gordon KING-SMITH | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Alt. Name: | Dick KING-SMITH | |
| Spouse 1: | Doreen Myrle ENGLAND (1922-2000) | |
| Spouse 2: | Zona Margaret BEDDING (1943-2011) | |
| Birth | 27 Mar 1922 | Bitton, Gloucestershire, England |
| Baptism | 6 May 1922 (age 0) | Bitton, Gloucestershire, England |
| Military Regiment | Grenadier Guards | |
| Military Rank | Acting Lieutenant | |
| Enlisted (Military) | 19414 | |
| Education | 1940 (age 17-18) | Tytherington Farm; Wylye Valley, Wiltshire4 |
| He took up a farming apprenticeship and was paid £1 per week. | ||
| Posted (Military) | 9 Sep 1943 (age 21) | Italy4 |
| As a platoon commander he took part in the Salerno landings. Then with his platoon fought their way up through Italy, taking some months. Then he was wounded in July 1944. | ||
| Wounded (Military) | 12 Jul 1944 (age 22) | Italy4 |
| Dick was seriously injured by a British hand grenade thrown by a German soldier. He was only saved from certain death by the fact that he was sheltering behind a tree, which took the brunt of the explosion. He suffered extensive shrapnel wounds and later, when he was back in England, a cerebral embolism, either of which could have killed him. He was sent to a military hospital in Liverpool, and then to a convalescent home in Weston-Super-Mare. |
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| Military Service No. | 253886 | |
| Occupation | Writer of children's books4 | |
| Ronald Gordon King-Smith OBE was an English writer of children's books, primarily using the pen name Dick King-Smith. He is best known for The Sheep-Pig (1983). It was adapted as the movie Babe (1995) and translations have been published in fifteen languages. King-Smith and The Sheep-Pig won the 1984 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. WORKS The Fox Busters (1978) Daggie Dogfoot; US title, Pigs Might Fly (1980) Magnus Powermouse (1982) The Mouse Butcher (1982) The Queen's Nose (1983) The Sheep-Pig (1983); US title, Babe: The Gallant Pig Harry's Mad (1984) Lightning Fred (1985) Saddlebottom (1985) Dumpling (1986) E.S.P. (1986) Noah's Brother (1986) The Hodgeheg (1987) Tumbleweed (1987) Country Watch (1987) Town Watch (1987) Farmer Bungle Forgets (1987) Friends and Brothers (1987) Cuckoobush Farm (1987) George Speaks (1988) Emily's Legs (1988) Water Watch (1988) Dodo Comes to Tumbledown Farm (1988) Tumbledown Farm – The Greatest (1988) The Jenius (1988) Martin's Mice (1988) Ace (1990) Alice and Flower and Foxianna (1989) Beware of the Bull (1989) The Toby Man (1989) Dodos Are Forever (1989) The Trouble with Edward (1989) Jungle Jingles (1990) Blessu (1990) Paddy's Pot of Gold (1990) Alphabeasts (1990) The Water Horse (1990) The Whistling Piglet (1990) Mrs. Jolly (Series) The Jolly Witch (1990) Mrs. Jollipop (1996) Mrs. Jolly's Brolly (1998) The Jolly Witch Trilogy (2000) The Cuckoo Child (1991) (illustrated by Leslie W. Bowman) The Guard Dog (1991) Lightning Strikes Twice (1991) Caruso's Cool Cats (1991) Dick King-Smith's Triffic Pig Book (1991) Find the White Horse (1991) Horace and Maurice (1991) Lady Daisy (1992) Pretty Polly (1992) Dick King-Smith's Water Watch (1992) The Finger Eater (1992) The Ghost at Codlin Castle and Other Stories (1992) Super Terrific Pigs (1992) The Invisible Dog (1993) All Pigs Are Beautiful (1993) The Merrythought (1993) The Swoose (1993) Uncle Bumpo (1993) Dragon Boy (1993) Horse Pie (1993) Connie and Rollo (1994) The School Mouse (1994) Triffic: A Rare Pig's Tale (1994) Mr. Potter's Pet (1994) Harriet's Hare (1994) The Excitement of Being Ernest (1994) I Love Guinea Pigs (1994) Three Terrible Trins (1994) Happy Mouseday (1994) Bobby the Bad (1994) The Clockwork Mouse (1995) King Max the Last (1995) Omnibombulator (1995) The Terrible Trains (1995) Warlock Watson (1995) All Because of Jackson (1995) The Stray (1996) Clever Duck (1996) Dirty Gertie Macintosh (1996) Smasher (1996) Godhanger (1996) Hogsel and Gruntel (1996) Treasure Trove (1996) Mixed-Up Max (1997) What Sadie Saw (1997) The Spotty Pig (1997) A Mouse Called Wolf (1997) Robin Hood and His Miserable Men (1997)(illustrated by John Eastwood) Thinderella (1997) Puppy Love (1997) The Merman (1997) Round About 5 (1997) Mr. Ape (1998) How Green Was My Mouse (1998) The Big Pig Book (1998) Creepy Creatures Bag (1998) The Robber Boy (1998) The Crowstarver (1998) Pig in the City (1999) Poppet (1999) The Witch of Blackberry Bottom (1999) The Roundhill (2000) Spider Sparrow (2000) Just in Time (2000) The Magic Carpet Slippers (2000) Julius Caesar's Goat (2000) Mysterious Miss Slade (2000) Lady Lollipop (2000) The Biography Center (2001) Back to Front Benjy (2001) The Great Sloth Race (2001) Fat Lawrence (2001) Funny Frank (2001) Chewing the Cud (2001) (autobiography) Titus Rules! / Titus Rules OK! (2002) Billy the Bird/All Because of Jackson (2002) Story Box (2002) The Golden Goose (2003) Traffic (2003) Clever Lollipop (2003) The Adventurous Snail (2003) The Nine Lives of Aristotle (2003) Aristotle (2003) Just Binnie (2004) The Catlady (2004) Under the Mishmash Trees (2005) Hairy Hezekiah (2005) Dinosaur Trouble (2005) Nosy (2005) The Mouse Family Robinson (2007) SOPHIE Sophie's Snail (1988) Sophie's Tom (1991) Sophie Hits Six (1991) Sophie in the Saddle (1993) Sophie is Seven (1994) Sophie's Lucky (1995) |
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| Education | Beaudesert Park School and Marlborough College.4 | |
| Residence | btw 1944 and 1946 (age 21-24) | Bitton, Gloucestershire, England4 |
| Homelea He lived with Myrle and his parents, until he was feeling recovered. |
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| Occupation | btw 1946 and 1967 (age 23-45) | Farmer4 |
| He spent some time studying agriculture, and then persevered as a farmer at a number of farms, including one owned by the family paper mills, but he was never very successful. | ||
| Occupation | btw 1967 and 1971 (age 44-49) | Time and Motion man; Bristol, Gloucestershire, England4 |
| Education | btw 1971 and 1974 (age 48-52) | Cert. Ed; Bristol, Gloucestershire, England4 |
| College of St Matthias Primary School Teacher Training |
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| Education | btw 1974 and 1975 (age 51-53) | B.Ed (Hons); Bristol, Gloucestershire, England4 |
| University of Bristol | ||
| Occupation | btw 1975 and 1982 (age 52-60) | Primary School Teacher; Bath, Somerset, England4 |
| Farmborough primary school | ||
| Occupation | frm 1978 (age 55-56) | Children's Book Writer4 |
| In 1982 he gave up teaching and became a full-time writer. | ||
| DecoratrionsHonours | 2010 (age 87-88) | OBE |
| For services to children's literature. | ||
| Death | 4 Jan 2011 (age 88) | |
| Burial | 2011 | Queen Charlton, Bath, Somerset, England4 |
| Church of St Margaret | ||
| Name: | William John Anthony KING-SMITH4 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 23 Jan 1928 | Keynsham, Somerset, England4 |
| Death | 2006 (age 77-78) | Upton Cheyney, Gloucestershire, England |
| 1 | Text From Source: 1921, Marriage solemnized at St Andrew in the Parish of St Andrew's Major in the County of Glamorgan Marriage No: Glamorganshire Marriages And Banns, Parish Marriages, Page 142 When Married: 14 Jun 1921 Name and Surname: Ronald King-Smith and Grace Boucher Age: 26 and 19 Condition: Bachelor and Spinster Rank or Profession: paper manufacturer and - Residence at the time of Marriage: Bitton Hill House, Bitton and Overdale, Dinas Powis Fathers Names and Surnames: Charles King-Smith and Arthur William Boucher Rank or Professions of Fathers: Paper Manufacturer and Shipowner's Manager Married in the parish church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church in Wales, After Banns by me, Edward Davies, Rector. This Marriage was solemnized between us, Ronald King-Smith and Grace Boucher in the Presence of us, Charles King-Smith, Arthur William Boucher, William Esau Heard, Alice Elizabeth Smith |
| 2 | Juliet King-Smith. |
| 3 | Text From Source: Census England 1911 Address: Mill Hill Public Secondary School Place: Hendon, Middlesex, England Name,Relation,Sex,Age,Married,Years,Chd Born,Chd Living,Chd Died,Occupation,Industry,Employ Status,At Home,Where Born,Nationality,Infirmity Ronald King-Smith,Pupil,M,16,S,,,,,school,,,,Buckfastleigh, Devon, England,, |
| 4 | Peter Murray, Peter Murray. |
| 5 | Text From Source: Census England 1921 Address: Mullion Cove Hotel Place: Mullion, Cornwall, England Name,Relation,Age,Sex,Marr/Orph'd,Birthplace,Nationality,Education,Occupation,Employment,Place of Work,Chd <16,Children's Ages Ronald King-Smith,Visitor,26y 8m,M,Married,Buckfastleigh, Devon, England,,,paper manufacturer,Employer,Bitton nr Bristol,None, Grace King-Smith,Wife,19,F,Married,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,,,,,,, Clearly they were on their honeymoon, having married 5 days earlier. |
| 6 | Text From Source: Register England & Wales 1939 Address: Homelea, Ryedown Lane Place: Bitton, Gloucestershire, England Name of person,Status,Gender,Birthdate,Condition,Occupation,Comments King-Smith, Ronald,,M,6 Nov 1894,M,managing director, paper mills,Retired Army Officer, Chief Air Warden Area II Glos. King-Smith, Grace,,F,1 Jun 1902,M,unpaid domestic duties,Air Raid Warden There was a butler, Wyndham Rees, 37, living with them, and a domestic servant, Gisela Klahr, 45, probably recorded as an alien. |
| 7 | Text From Source: Census Wales 1911 Address: Wellwood Drive, Dinas Powis Place: St Andrews, Glamorgan, Wales Name,Relation,Sex,Age,Married,Years,Chd Born,Chd Living,Chd Died,Occupation,Industry,Employ Status,At Home,Where Born,Nationality,Infirmity,Language Arthur William Boucher,Head,M,40,M,,,,,manager for coal exporters,,,,Gobowen, Shropshire, England,,, Frances Claribel Boucher,Wife,F,37,M,9,3,3,-,,,,,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,,, Grace Boucher,Daughter,F,8,S,,,,,school,,,,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,,, Rosemary Boucher,Daughter,F,5,S,,,,,school,,,,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,,, Hugh Frederick David Boucher,Son,M,2,S,,,,,,,,,Dinas Powis, Glamorgan, Wales,,, Their cook - Jocelyn Mary Prosser, 22, was living with them |
| 8 | Free BMD Death. Bristol vol 22 page 477. Cit. Date: Q4 1980. Free BMD recorded as Grace King SMITH |
| 9 | Gloucestershire, Bristol Burial Index. Bitton, St Mary. Cit. Date: 27 November 1980. Archive reference Burials, 1850-1993 (P/B/R/4/b) |