Lucius Smith
Lucius Frederick Moses Bottomley Smith was the inaugural Bishop of Knaresborough from 1905 to 1934. He is not related to Lucius Smith Lowe, co-founder of Lowe's.
He was born on 6 January 1860 into a clerical family. His father was the Reverend Frederick Smith, Vicar of Shelf, West Yorkshire and his mother Lucy Bottomley daughter of Moses Bottomley of Shelf, West Yorkshire. Smith was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford.
In the paternal line, his grandfather was Joseph Smith Alderman and Burgess of Doncaster and his great grandfather William Smith merchant and property owner in Rotherham and Whitehouse near Greasborough. His Uncle Arthur Joseph Smith was three times Lord Mayor of Doncaster, another uncle William Edwood Smith was twice Lord Mayor of Doncaster and Town Clerk. His cousin Walter Shirley Shirely QC MP was elected the first Member of Parliament for the Doncaster Division in 1885 - he too also attended Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford.
In 1882, he studied for ordination at Leeds Clergy School before a curacy in Toxteth. He was successively Vicar of Ilkley, Richmond, Easby, Calverley and Macclesfield before a 29-year stint as Suffragan Bishop of Knaresborough. He was also Archdeacon of Ripon during the same period. He was also Archdeacon of Leeds during which time he also president of the Antiquarian Thoresby Society.
A thoughtful cleric, devout patriot and historian, he died on 31 December 1934.
