See also
| Husband: | Richard Wayland SMITH (1890-1967) | |
| Wife: | Gladys Marjorie BUTLER (1897-1979) | |
| Children: | Anne Elizabeth WAYLAND-SMITH (1923-2018) | |
| Marriage | 1922 | Devizes, Wiltshire, England |
| Name: | Richard Wayland SMITH | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 28 Mar 1890 | Wheatenhurst, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England |
| Baptism | 1 Jun 1890 (age 0) | Harescombe, Gloucestershire, England |
| Census | 1891 (age 1) | Harescombe, Gloucestershire, England |
| Bacchus Farm With parents Richard, 47, and Maria Smith, 43 . farmer from Haresfield, wife from Devizes, |
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| Census | 1901 (age 11) | Harescombe, Gloucestershire, England |
| Bacchus Farm As 1891, only Richard W as child |
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| Education | Nov 1904 (age 14) | Pupil at Crypt School, Gloucester; Worcester, Worcestershire, England |
| He won a scholarship at King's School, Worcester. | ||
| Census | 1911 (age 21) | Hampstead, London, England |
| 12 Fellows Road, NW described as a medical student born in Gloucester, he was a boarder in the home of Charles Augustus Buchul, 38, a German painter |
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| Occupation | 1911 (age 21) | Medical Student; Hampstead, London, England |
| 12 Fellows Road, NW He was boarding in the home of 38 year old German artist Charles Augustus Buchel and his family. |
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| Education | 1913 (age 22-23) | M.B. Ch.B. Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery; Edinburgh, Scotland |
| University of Edinburgh | ||
| Census | 1921 (age 31 yrs 3 mns) | Devizes, Wiltshire, England |
| Springfield House, Potterne Rd. He was a medical professional on his own account in Exeter. At the census he was visiting his widowed mother, Maria Smith, 73 years, 7 months. There was one servant. |
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| Education | Mar 1921 (age 30-31) | Fellow; Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Royal College of Surgeons Passed examinations and admitted FRCS, Edinburgh. |
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| Occupation | 1922 (age 31-32) | Surgeon, HM Prison, Exeter; Exeter, Devon, England |
| H.M. Prison, New North Road It was his duty in this role to witness the executions of the conndemned, and to certify their deaths. |
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| Census | 1939 (age 48-49) | Exeter, Devon, England |
| Spreytonway, Pennsylvania Richard and wife Gladys were living with a cook, a housemaid and a parlourmaid. He was a consulting surgeon. |
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| Death | 1967 (age 76-77) | Exeter, Devon, England |
| Name: | Gladys Marjorie BUTLER | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Robert Reginald Frederick BUTLER (1866-1933) | |
| Mother: | Rose RICH (1871-1945) | |
| Birth | 5 Jul 1897 | Rowde, Devizes, Wiltshire, England |
| Beneficiary in Will | 1933 (age 35-36) | Exeter, Devon, England |
| She received £1000 from her uncle George Rich. | ||
| Death | 13 Mar 1979 (age 81) | Exmouth, Devon, England |
| Probate | 16 May 1979 | Bristol, Gloucestershire, England |
| 17 Douglas Avenue, Exmouth Effects valued on probate at £325,139 |
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| Name: | Anne Elizabeth WAYLAND-SMITH | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Humphrey PLATT (1918-1997) | |
| Birth | 1923 | |
| Death | 19 Feb 2018 (age 94-95) | |
Another patient of Reed Hall formerly Streatham Hall, University of Exeter, when it was a wartime hospital (Exeter number 7) was Richard Wayland-Smith, who had qualified as a doctor at Edinburgh University. He had been a member of the Officers’ Training Corps there and served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was on the Western Front for three years before being shot in June 1917. After treatment at Hospital No 7 he was passed fit for home service and the Army posted him as the Resident Medical Officer to the Exeter war hospital No 5. In the 1920s Richard Wayland-Smith came back to Exeter first as house surgeon and later as consultant. He was elected as Sheriff of Exeter in 1927 and as Mayor of Exeter in 1952.