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ADMIRAL SMYTH 41 



Sir Warington Smyth, the celebrated geologist and 

 mineralogist, had rowed in the Cambridge " eight " 

 which defeated Oxford in 1839. Another, Charles 

 Piazzi Smyth, was for many years Astronomer- Royal 

 for Scotland, and well known for his researches in 

 the Great Pyramid ; a third is General Sir Henry 

 Augustus Smyth, K.C.M.G., sometime Governor 

 of Malta ; whilst a daughter, Henrietta, married the 

 Rev. Baden Powell, Savilian Professor of Geometry 

 in the University of Oxford, and counted among 

 her children Sir George Smyth Baden -Powell, 

 M.P., and General Robert Stephenson Smyth 

 Baden-Powell, C.B. Another daughter, Ellen, be- 

 came the wife of Captain H. Toynbee, who has 

 worked so devotedly in the cause of seamen, 

 especially in helping to establish Sailors' Homes. 



Admiral Smyth, who claimed descent from Captain 

 John Smyth, the founder of Virginia, married at the 

 conclusion of the great war with France, at Messina 

 in Sicily in 1815, Annarella, the only child of Mr. 

 Thomas Warington, English Consul at Naples, a 

 lady as remarkable for her beauty and accomplish- 

 ments as for her charming disposition. 1 



As an instance of the touch which the present 

 may have with the past, it may be mentioned that 

 Mrs. Smyth had been present, as a little girl, and 

 figuring as the only lady there, at a dinner given by 

 her father to Nelson and his captains after the 



1 She was an accomplished artist, and bequeathed the taste to many of 

 her children and grandchildren. 



