Dudley Stewart-Smith

Sir Dudley Stewart-Smith (3 February 1857 – 9 May 1919) was a British Liberal Party politician and barrister.

Background He was born in Paddington, London, the son of Alexander Stewart-Smith and Susannah Laming. After his father's death in Hong Kong in 1859, his mother remarried to grocer Worthington Evans; Laming Worthington-Evans was his half-brother. He was educated at University College London. He obtained an LLB at London University. He married Katherine Cautley of Burton Pidsea. They had two sons and three daughters. A son, Dudley Cautley Stewart-Smith was born in 1894

Career Stewart-Smith received a call to the bar in 1886, and was made a Bencher at Middle Temple. He was appointed a King's Council in April 1902. He was Chairman of the Lancaster Quarter Sessions (Salford Hundred). He was on the Council of the Victoria and Liverpool Universities. He was a royal commissioner (Land Transfer). He was a justice of the peace in Westmorland, Lancashire, and Cheshire. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster in 1912. He was knighted in the 1917 Birthday Honours. He published Law of Winding-up and Reconstruction of Joint-Stock Companies.