Major Arthur Algernon Dorrien-Smith (28 January 1876 – 30 May 1955) was Lord Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly from 1918 to 1920. Family Major Arthur Algernon Smith-Dorrien-Smith was born on 28 January 1876, in Oxfordshire, to Thomas Smith-Dorrien-Smith and Edith Anna Maria ( Tower). He married Eleanor Salvin Bowlby (died 13 April 1978), daughter of Edward Salvin Bowlby and Elizabeth Vans (née Agnew), on 11 May 1909 at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London. There were four sons and three daughters from this marriage: Captain Algernon Robert Augustus Dorrien-Smith (5 May 1910 – 20 May 1940, buried in Lapugnoy Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France) married Rosemarie Helen Lucas-Tooth Anne Elizabeth Dorrien-Smith (4 July 1911), married Claud Phillimore, 4th Baron Phillimore Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Mervyn Dorrien-Smith RN (12 May 1913 – 5 December 1973), married firstly Princess Tamar Bagration-Imeretinsky, secondly Margaret Claire "Peggy" Hugh-Jones Innis Mary Dorrien-Smith (8 May 1916), married William Somers Llewellyn Pilot Officer Lionel Roger Dorrien-Smith RAF (1918 – 20 May 1940, he has no known grave and is commemorated on panel 8 of the Runnymede Memorial in Bayeux Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery) Major Francis Arthur Dorrien-Smith (26 August 1921 – 20 June 1944 buried in Bayeux Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery) Helen Dorrien-Smith (12 December 1932 - 26 October 2015) Career Dorrien-Smith was educated at Eton College. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade on 4 May 1898, and promoted to lieutenant on 3 February 1900. On the outbreak of the Second Boer War, his battalion was sent to South Africa, and he was mentioned in dispatches, and received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for his services during the war. He was promoted to captain on 22 January 1902. Following the end of hostilities in June 1902, he left Cape Town for England and returned to Southampton in early August. In 1904-5 he was an extra Aide-de-camp to Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote, Governor-General of Australia, and retired in 1906, joining the Special Reserve. In the First World War he was Major, 6th Battalion (Reserve) Rifle Brigade, 1914; Brigade Major 17th Infantry Brigade, 1914–17; On the Staff 59th Division and 8th Corps, 1917–18. On the death of his father in 1918, he succeeded as Lord Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly, a position he held until 1920 when the lease for the majority of the Isles of Scilly was handed back to