HORTON-SMITHj Richard Horton, Master of Arts was born on December 4, 1831. E. 9. of late Richard Smith, of the City of London, and of The Lodge, Littlehampton, Sussex, and Elizabeth, daughter of late William Lumley. E. b. of Judge Lumley Smith, King’s Counsel.
Studied at University College School. University Coil. London. Saint John's College Cambridge 4th Classic and Senior Opt.
Members’ Latin Essay Prize, 1857. Fellow Saint John's College 1859. Founder Raymond HortonSmith Prize, 1900 (Cambridge University).
Classical Lecturer, King’s College London 1857.
Called to Bar, 1859; Joint-Editor, De G. J. & South. (Chancellor Reports), 1862-1865. Joint-Author (with De Gex), Arrangements between Debtors and Creditors, 1867-1868-1869.
Queen's Counsel 1877. Member of Original Liberal Unionist Committee for Maintenance of the Union, 1886.
On Committee University College Hospital and Brompton Hospital for Consumption.
Late on Council, and also Committee of Hospital, King’s College London. Chairman of His (or Her) Majesty’s Commissioners for Land Tax and Income Tax for the Hoi born District. King’s Counsel 1901; Bencher, Senior Trustee, and late Treasurer of Lincoln’s Inn.
Clubs: Athenaeum, Reform. Pitt, Cambridge.
Spouse 1864, Marilla, daughter of late John Baily, Queen's Counsel
