down his constitution, and he died at sea on 13 December 1861. Personal life Baird Smith married Florence Elizabeth, second daughter of the writer Thomas De Quincey, on 10 January 1856. The couple had two daughters, Florence May and Margaret Eleanor. Memorials A memorial to Smith by George Gilbert Scott stands in St Paul's Cathedral in Calcutta. A very large memorial to both Smith and his father stands in their home town of Lasswade just north of the Old Kirkyard. Further reading References 1818 births 1861 deaths Graduates of Addiscombe Military Seminary Bengal Engineers officers British East India Company Army officers British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Sikh War People who died at sea