attended Trinity College, becoming vicar of Camberwell, and Chaplain to King George IV. Having inherited his mother's Windham and Bowyer inheritances, in 1839 he adopted by Royal licence the surname of Bowyer-Smijth, dying 1850. His son Sir William Bowyer-Smith, the eleventh Baronet, sat as Member of Parliament for South Essex from 1852 to 1857. He died in 1883 and was succeeded by his son, Sir William, the twelfth Baronet, who was in the Diplomatic Service and also served as Sheriff of Essex in 1889, dying childless in 1916. The baronetcy then reverted to a first cousin, Alfred Bowyer-Smijth, eldest son of Reverend Alfred John Edward Bowyer-Smijth, younger son of the tenth Baronet, who thus became the thirteenth Baronet. In 1916 he abandoned the affected spelling of his family surname, adopting Bowyer-Smyth. He died childless in 1927 and was succeeded by his nephew, Philip, the son of Clement Weyland Bowyer-Smijth. Sir Philip Bowyer-Smyth, the fourteenth Baronet, was born in Sydney, Australia in 1894. He joined the Royal Navy in 1906, five years before the creation of an Australian navy, and served in World War I and World War II. He was the Naval Attache at Rome from 1938 to 1940, and he commanded the Australian warship H.M.A.S Perth from 1940 to 1941. He was Director of radio equipment for the Admiralty from 1943 to 1944, and then Commodore of East Africa from 1945 until 1946 when he became Aide-de-Camp to King George VI. He died in November 1978. The current Baronet, Sir Thomas Weyland Bowyer-Smyth, is married to director Mary "Coky" Giedroyc, sister of TV personality Mel Giedroyc. Smith, later Smyth, Smijth, Bowyer-Smijth and Bowyer-Smyth baronets, of Hill Hall (1661) Sir Thomas Smyth, 1st Baronet (–1668) Sir Edward Smyth, 2nd Baronet (1637–1713) Sir Edward Smyth, 3rd Baronet (1686–1744) Sir Edward Smyth, 4th Baronet (1710–1760) Sir Charles Smyth, 5th Baronet (1711–1773) Sir William Smyth, 6th Baronet (c. 1719–1777) Sir William Smijth, 7th Baronet (1746–1823) Sir Thomas Smijth, 8th Baronet (1781–1833) Sir John Smijth, 9th Baronet (1782–1838) Sir Edward Bowyer-Smijth, 10th Baronet (1 March 1785 – 15 August 1850) Sir William Bowyer-Smijth, 11th Baronet (1814–1883) Sir William Bowyer-Smijth, 12th Baronet (1840–1916) Sir Alfred John Bowyer-Smyth, 13th Baronet (1850–1927) Sir Philip Weyland Bowyer-Smyth, 14th Baronet (1894–1978) Sir Thomas Weyland Bowyer-Smyth, 15th Baronet (born 1960) See also Smith baronets Notes References Cokayne, George E., ed., Complete Baronetage, Exeter:William Pollard & Co., vol. 3 (1903), pp.