Augustus Smith (priest)

Augustus Elder Smith (1844-1916) was an Anglican priest who served in two senior leadership positions within the Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[1]

Smith was educated at Codrington College, Barbados and ordained in 1868. After a curacy at St Silas, Barbados he was Rector and Dean of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Port of Spain;[2] and Archdeacon of Trinidad from 1902 until 1914.

He died on 8 January 1916 at West Kensington.[3]

Notes
  1. ‘SMITH, Ven. Augustus Elder’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 18 Feb 2014
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p1315 London, Horace Cox, 1908
  3. “Deaths” The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Jan 11, 1916; pg. 1; Issue 41060


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