Background
Smith, Vivian Hugh was born on December 9, 1867. Son of late Hugh Colin Smith and Constauce, daughter of Henry J. Adeane, Member of Parliament, of Babraham, Cambridge, and daughter of 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley.
Smith, Vivian Hugh was born on December 9, 1867. Son of late Hugh Colin Smith and Constauce, daughter of Henry J. Adeane, Member of Parliament, of Babraham, Cambridge, and daughter of 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley.
He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Smith served as the Chairman of Yule Catto & Company Limited, Governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation from 1914 to 1956, and a Director of Morgan Grenfell & Company Between 1934 and 1956, he also held the honorary position of Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. On 29 June 1938 Smith was raised to the peerage as Baron Bicester, of Tusmore in the County of Oxford.
Personal life
They had seven children:
Randal Hugh Vivian Smith, 2nd Baron Bicester (1898–1968).
Victoria Alexandrina Vivian Smith (1899–1969), unmarried. Mary Constance Vivian Smith (1901–1981), married Francis James Rennell Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell.
Lieutenant-Colonel Honorary Stephen Edward Vivian Smith ( 1903–1952), father of Angus Edward Vivian Smith, 3rd Baron Bicester.
Honorary Joyce Sybil Vivian Smith (1905), married Gerald Lloyd-Verney. Honorary Honor Mildred Vivian Smith (1908–1995), surgeon.
Major Honorary Hugh Adeane Vivian Smith (1910–1978).
