Sidney Maynard Smith

Sidney Maynard Smith (1875 to 1928) was a British surgeon who rose to the senior surgical post at St Mary's Hospital in London. Educated at Epsom College and St Mary's Hospital Medical School, he served as a surgeon during the Boer War and then in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War, when he became consulting surgeon to the British Fifth Army in 1916 and later to the Second Army. His wartime service brought him the Companionship of the Order of the Bath, the French Croix de Guerre and appointment as a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John, and he was three times mentioned in dispatches. In 1922 he became Senior Surgeon at St Mary's, succeeding Ernest Lane. He was also a freemason who held office as Grand Deacon of the Grand Lodge of England, and he was the father of the biologist John Maynard Smith.