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Horace Lockwood Smith Dorrien         1858-1930
General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien GCB, GCMG, DSO, ADC.
Horace was born on 26 May 1858, the son of Robert Algernon Smith Dorrien and Mary Ann Drever, at Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Educated at Harrow and the Royal Military Academy. Commissioned in February 1876. Posted to South Africa in 1878, as a trasportation officer. Read his detailed obituary, referenced below, for the story of his life.




Olive Crofton Schneider                         1881-1951
Lady Olive CroftonSmith-Dorrien D.B.E.
Olive was born about 1881, the daughter of Colonel John Henry Augustus Schneider and Mary Elizabeth Crofton, in London.
I have identified the following children.
  Grenfell Horace Gerald Born abt 1904   KIA 13 Sep 1944
Peter Lockwood Born abt 1907   Married Bridget Elvira Liddell,
Cynthia Toulmin
David Pelham
a.k.a. Bromley David		 Born 29 Oct 1911   Died 11 Feb 2001

Birth of Parents
Horace Lockwood Smith Dorrien b: 26 May 1858           Berkhamsted, Hertford       1858 2Q Berkhampstead 6 499
son of Robert Algernon Smith Dorrien and Mary Ann Drever

Olive Crofton Schneider b: abt 1881         London       1881 2Q Kensington 1a 167
daughter of Colonel John Henry Augustus Schneider and Mary Elizabeth Crofton

Marriage
abt 1902
Horace Lockwood Smith Dorrien
Olive Crofton Schneider 		St Peter's, Eaton Square, London       1902 3Q St Geo Hanover Sq 1a 1069

Children
Grenfell Horace Gerald Smith-Dorrien b: abt 1904
son of Horace Lockwood Smith Dorrien and Olive Crofton Schneider
Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien b: abt 1907
son of Horace Lockwood Smith Dorrien and Olive Crofton Schneider
David Pelham Smith-Dorrien
a.k.a. Bromley David Smith-Dorrien		 b: 29 Oct 1911         London       1912 2Q Chelsea 1a 698    Died 11 Feb 2001
son of Horace Lockwood Smith Dorrien and Olive Crofton Schneider

Death
General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith Dorrien
Burial: Three Close Lane Cemetery		 Died 12 Aug 1930, Age 72,                   1930 3Q Chippenham 5a 62
following injuries sustained in a car accident
Read his Obituary

IN Memory of
Brigadier GRENFELL HORACE GERALD
SMITH-DORRIEN D.S.O.
Cdg. 169th Inf. Bde., General Staff
and, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Who Died Age 40
ON 13 September 1944

Son of General Sir Horace Lockwood
Smith-Dorrien, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., D.S.O.,
and Lady Smith-Dorrien, D.B.E.,
REMEMBERED WITH HONOUR
GRADARA WAR CEMETERY, Gradara, Pesaro, Italy

COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION
 The Times, Wednesday, Oct 11, 1944                   DEATHS
  SMITH-DORRIEN - Killed in action in Sept., 1944, in Italy, Brigadier G. H. G. Smith-dorrien, D.S.O. (Gren), eldest son of the late General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., D.S.O., and Lady Smith-Dorrien, D.B.E., The Annexe, Exhibition Road, S.W.7.

LONDON   30 Dec 1930                         Probate
SMITH-DORRIEN G.C.B. G.C.M.G. D.S.O. sir Horace Lockwood - of Le Bocage Dinard France, died 12 August 1930, at Chippenham Cottage Hospital, Chippenham, Wiltshire, Probate London, 30 December, to Gerald Horace Grenfell Smith-Dorrien, lieutenant H.M. army.   Effects £6,519 3s.


Death
Lady Olive Crofton (Schneider) Smith-Dorrien, D.B.E.
Read her Obituary		 Died 15 Sep 1951, Age 70,     1951 3Q Chelsea 5c 262

LONDON   9 Nov 1951                         Probate
SMITH-DORRIEN, dame Olive Crofton D.B.E. - of 66 Cadogan-square, Chelsea, London, widow, died 15 September 1951, Probate London 9 November, to Bromley David Smith-Dorrien, theatrical director, and Anthony Forbes Moir, solicitor.
  Effects £10,782 14s. 9d.

SPECIAL THANKS  to Iain McGibbon, of Havelock North, New Zealand, for many of the details provided above.