Lieutenant Thomas Algernon Smith-Dorrien-Smith Justice of the Peace, Doctor of Laws, was Lord Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly from 1872 – 1918.
Background
Thomas Algernon Smith-Dorrien-Smith was born on 7 February 1846 at Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire. He was the son of Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien and Mary Ann Drever. He married Edith Anna Maria Tower (d 17 January 1892), daughter of Christopher Theron Tower and Lady Sophia Frances Cust, on 8 April 1875.
Major Arthur Algernon Smith-Dorrien-Smith (28 January 1876 – 30 May 1955) married on 11 May 1909 to Eleanor Salvin Bowlby, daughter of Edward Salvin Bowlby and Elizabeth Vans Agnew.
Career
The children of this marriage were:
Mary Sophia Smith-Dorrien-Smith (9 November 1877 – 22 December 1948) married on 3 July 1902 to Townshend Evelyn Boscawen, son of Review Honorary John Townshend Boscawen and Mary Tremayne. Major Edward Pendarves Smith-Dorrien-Smith (26 February 1878 – 12 October 1937) married on 2 June 1915 to Frances Amy Salvin Bowlby, daughter of Edward Salvin Bowlby and Elizabeth Vans Agnew.
Edith Innis Smith-Dorrien-Smith (b 1 January 1881)
Cicely Frances Smith-Dorrien-Smith (b 4 November 1882)
Gwendolen Smith-Dorrien-Smith (b 7 November 1883)
Charlotte Smith-Dorrien-Smith (b c 1886)
He was given the name of Thomas Algernon Smith-Dorrien at birth.
In 1872 he changed his name by Royal Licence to Thomas Algernon Smith-Dorrien-Smith. He was educated at Harrow School.
He is considered to be the person who saw the potential for the export of flowers from the Islands, a trade which continues to this day. He was a Justice of the Peace, and later Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall.
These were 545 common snipe (Gallinago gallinago), 415 Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) and 42 jack snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus).
Rodd also received an immature purple heron (Ardea purpurea) and a wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) for his collection.
Membership
He was elected a Member of the British Ornithologists" Union in 1904.