Background
SMITH, Howard Frank Trayton was born on October 15, 1919 in Brighton, Sussex. Son of the late Frank Howard Smith.
SMITH, Howard Frank Trayton was born on October 15, 1919 in Brighton, Sussex. Son of the late Frank Howard Smith.
Polytechnic Secondary School, London, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Counsellor, Moscow 1961-1963. Head of N. Department, Foreign Office 1964-1968. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia 1968-1971.
Special Representative of British Government, in Ulster 1971-1972. Deputy Secretary to Cabinet Office 1972-1975. Ambassador to USSR 1976-1978.
Married 1st Mary Cropper in 1943 (died in 1982). Married 2nd Mary Penney in 1983.