Gordon Smith (philatelist)

[1] He was a tutor in maths at Truro College but left that to study for the bar, being called at Lincoln's Inn in 1882.

[1] Smith rekindled his boyhood interest in philately in 1885, from where it grew to be a consuming passion and a career that he pursued in preference to the law.

[1] Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal, in their obituary for Smith, summed up his particular aptitude for philatelic research, and no doubt its appeal to him also, thus: "His legal training had taught him that there are always two sides to a question, and, combined with his mathematical capability, enabled him to distinguish evidence from proof.

[1] He rowed at stroke in the Grand Challenge Cup, the oldest and best-known event at the annual Henley Royal Regatta at Henley-on-Thames.

[1] Smith's death at a fairly early age came after a decline in his health over several years, eventually diagnosed as a stomach ulcer.