Reginald Southwell Smith

He was the fourth son of Sir John Wyldbore Smith, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Elizabeth Anne Marriott.

[2]# Smith was ordained, and became a curate to Frederick Parry Hodges, a Fellow of Winchester College, at Lyme Regis.

"[6] Wanklyn wrote in Lyme Regis: A Retrospect (1922): In doctrine Dr. Hodges was an Evangelical of the school predominant in the Church of England in his young days, before the starting of the Oxford movement.

[7]In 1836 Smith became rector of West Stafford, Dorset, after the death of the incumbent William Ireland in November 1835.

[10][11] His diocesan was James Henry Monk, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, a conservative churchman and no friend to Bristol-area evangelicals.

[20] The Disruption of 1843 led to the formation of the Free Church of Scotland, to which Kalley adhered, and which sent a delegation to Smith.

"[21] The 1844 edition of Emily Smith's Panoramic View of Funchal in lithograph was also connected with the wish to raise the profile of the religious strife on the island.

Henry Moule, whose living of Fordington adjoined West Stafford to the west, confronted the sect's leaders Henry James Prince and Samuel Starkey..[23] Smith associated in evangelical causes such as the Irish Amelioration Society with Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden, and had one of the Earl's relations, Horace Noel, as a curate.

[44] The children included: Thomas Hardy as a family friend certainly knew Henry, Reginald Bosworth, Alice, Evangeline, and Caroline Blanche.

[66] He knew Emily Smith as Geneviève, and expressed admiration for her background in a bread-and-butter letter to her of the mid-1870s, after a dinner made awkward by the butler's disapproval of Hardy's dealings with his daughter.