William Frederick Haynes Smith

Sir William Frederick Haynes-Smith (26 June 1839 – 18 December 1928) was an English colonial administrator in the British Empire.

Early life Haynes-Smith was born in Blackheath, Kent on 26 June 1839. He was the fifth son of John Lucie Smith L.L.D. and Martha Bean. He was Uncle to Sir Alfred Lucie-Smith, who was also a colonial judge who married first Rose Alice Emerentiana Aves and second Meta Mary Ross (a daughter of Sir David Palmer Ross).

Career He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1863, and shortly after was sent to British Guiana as Solicitor-General. In November 1888, he was appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands, followed by a transfer to the Bahamas in 1895. He served as High Commissioner of Cyprus from 1898 to 1904. Ellen was a daughter of English-born James Thomas White (son of Dr. Andrew White FRCS) and Anne Gordon Hubbard (daughter of John Hubbard and Jane (née Parkinson) Hubbard). Ellen's aunt, Mary Greene Hubbard, was the second wife of Russell Sturgis, an American merchant and banker who was the head of Baring Brothers in London. Together, they were the parents of a son and a daughter: In 1924, when both were in their 50s, he married Alice Maud Russell Sturgis (1868–1964), a daughter of American architect John Hubbard Sturgis and the niece of his later partner. Anne Haynes-Smith (1870–1963), who married Rear Admiral Edward Cecil Villiers, a son of Rev. Charles Villiers and Florence Mary Tyssen-Amherst. His brother was Ernest Villiers, MP for Brighton (and husband of Hon. Elaine Guest, daughter of Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne). He was a grandson of Thomas Hyde Villiers, great-grandson of the Hon. George Villiers, and a 2x great-grandson of Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon.

In 1920, he purchased Brandon Park in Suffolk. He died at Turleigh Mill in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire on 18 December 1928.

Descendants Through his daughter Anne, he was a grandfather of Vice Admiral Sir Michael Villiers, the Fourth Sea Lord and Vice Controller of the Navy. 1895–1898 Governor of the Bahamas and of the Leeward Islands 1898–1904 High Commissioner of Cyprus