Samuel Pountney Smith

[3] He learned the trades of builder and architect with his uncle John Smalman[4] at Quatford near Bridgnorth, and came to Shrewsbury in about 1840 after working in the latter's business.

[9] According to the authors of the Buildings of England series, his work was strongly influenced by A. W. N. Pugin, and his designs were mainly in Early English style.

[10] Smith also received domestic commissions to design new houses (e.g.: Llantysilio Hall, home of Charles Beyer),[11] and to alter others, including The Limes, in Belle Vue, Shrewsbury, which he remodelled for his own use.

However he was elected alderman from outside council in 1877 and served until he died, three days before the end of his six-year term of office.

[1][5] Smith died at The Limes, after three months' paralysis, in 1883 aged seventy-one, and was buried in the Shrewsbury General Cemetery in Longden Road.