Lucius Smith

Lucius Frederick Moses Bottomley Smith (6 January 1860 – 31 December 1934) was the inaugural Bishop of Knaresborough from 1905 to 1934. He is not related to Lucius Smith Lowe, co-founder of Lowe's.

He was born on 6 January 1860 into a clerical family. His father was the Reverend Frederick Smith (1823-1874), Vicar of Shelf, West Yorkshire and his mother Lucy Bottomley (1823-1860) daughter of Moses Bottomley of Shelf, West Yorkshire.[1] Smith was educated at Harrow[2] and Balliol College, Oxford.[3]

In the paternal line, his grandfather was Joseph Smith (1792-1841) Alderman and Burgess of Doncaster and his great grandfather William Smith (1767-1829) merchant and property owner in Rotherham and Whitehouse near Greasborough. His Uncle Arthur Joseph Smith (1825-1891) was three times Lord Mayor of Doncaster, another uncle William Edwood Smith was twice Lord Mayor of Doncaster and Town Clerk. His cousin Walter Shirley Shirely QC MP (1851-1888) was elected the first Member of Parliament for the Doncaster Division in 1885 - he too also attended Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford.

In 1882, he studied for ordination at Leeds Clergy School before a curacy in Toxteth.[4] He was successively Vicar of Ilkley, Richmond, Easby, Calverley and Macclesfield before a 29-year stint as Suffragan Bishop of Knaresborough.[5] He was also Archdeacon of Ripon during the same period. He was also Archdeacon of Leeds (1921-1934) during which time he also president of the Antiquarian Thoresby Society.

A thoughtful cleric,[6] devout patriot[7] and historian,[8] he died on 31 December 1934.

References
  1. Hewitt, J F. "The Early History of St Margaret's Church, Ilkley". St Margaret's Ilkley. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  2. “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  3. Undergraduate at Balliol Archived 2006-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
  4. During which time he married Lucy Bottomley
  5. The Times, Thursday, 22 November 1905; p. 14; Issue 38184; col A Ecclesiastical Intelligence
  6. ”Religious education and the education bill: 1906 ... a charge delivered at the archidiaconal visitation, May 8th and 10th, 1906.”Smith, L.F.M.B: Leeds, Richard Richardson,1906
  7. "Prayers in time of war" The Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Boyd Carpenter, the Bishop of Worcester, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Knaresborough, the Bishop of Birmingham, Canon Newbolt & others: London, Jarrold, 1914
  8. ”The Story of Ripon Minster” Smith, L.F.M.B: Leeds, Richard Richardson,1924
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Inaugural appointment		 Bishop of Knaresborough
1905 – 1934		 Succeeded by
Paul Fulcrand Delacour de Labilliere


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