Frederick Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Frederick Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead

British historian and peer

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1907

Date of Death: 10-Jun-1975

Profession: politician, historian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Frederick Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead

  • Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (7 December 1907 – 10 June 1975) was a British historian.
  • He is best known for writing a controversial biography of Rudyard Kipling that was suppressed by the Kipling family for many years, and which he never lived to see in print.
  • The son of F.
  • E.
  • Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, he was known as Viscount Furneaux from 1922, when his father, then 1st Viscount Birkenhead, was created Earl of Birkenhead.
  • Lord Furneaux was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and inherited his father's peerages in 1930.In 1935 he married The Hon Sheila Berry (1913-1992), second daughter of the 1st Viscount Camrose.
  • The couple had a son, Frederick William Robin Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead, in 1936 and a daughter, Lady Juliet Margaret Smith (later Lady Juliet Townsend), in 1941.
  • Lady Juliet served as Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret from 1965 to 2002; her daughter Eleanor Townsend is a god-child of the Princess.
  • Lady Juliet was made a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) in the 2014 Birthday Honours having previously received the LVO in 1981 and was Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire from 1998 to 2014.
  • She died on 29 November 2014.For the first three years of the Second War, Lord Birkenhead served with a Territorial Army Anti-Tank unit.
  • Following a course at the Staff College, Camberley, Major 'Freddy' Birkenhead was assigned to the Foreign Office's Political Intelligence Department, popularly known as the Political Warfare Executive, or PWE for short.
  • He saw action in Croatia, as second-in-command of a sub-mission headed by Randolph Churchill, under Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's 37th Military Mission, which included Evelyn Waugh.
  • As a result, he plays a prominent role in Waugh's diaries. Lord Birkenhead served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Halifax (1938–39), and as Lord-in-waiting to King George VI (1938–40 and 1951–52) and Queen Elizabeth II (1952–55).

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