Octavius Smith

The son of William Smith and Frances Coape, he married Jane [Joan]Cooke, the daughter of one of his former business partners, in 1819.

He was educated at Trinity College Cambridge.

When he retired from the Thames Bank Distillery, Grosvenor Road, Westminster, he became the paternalistic landowner of Ardtornish estate in the West Highlands, building model houses while his wife set up an infant school.

Children of Octavius Smith and Jane Cooke: Frederick [-1839], Valentine, William, Gertrude, Flora, Gerard [-1858]and Edith