John Smith, Rector of St Mary's church in Baldock, Hertfordshire, he was born on 3 April 1816, and graduated LL.B.
[1] He entered Lincoln's Inn on 9 November 1836, where he was called to the bar on 6 May 1841, and mainly practised in the Court of Chancery.
[2] Becoming Queen's Counsel on 25 February 1861, Smith was chosen a bencher of Lincoln's Inn on 13 March following, and in September 1865 became County Court judge for Herefordshire and Shropshire (circuit No.
[2] Smith married in 1844 Mary, second daughter of George Henry Hicks, M.D., of Baldock.
[2] They are buried in the family plot in the churchyard of St Mary's church in Baldock.