William Haynes-Smith

Sir William Frederick Haynes-Smith KCMG (26 June 1839 – 18 December 1928) was an English colonial administrator in the British Empire.

He was Uncle to Sir Alfred Lucie-Smith, who was also a colonial judge who married first Rose Alice Emerentiana Aves and second Meta Mary Ross (a daughter of Sir David Palmer Ross).

[2] He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1863, and shortly after was sent to British Guiana as Solicitor-General.

[3] In November 1888, he was appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands, followed by a transfer to the Bahamas in 1895.

Ellen's aunt, Mary Greene Hubbard, was the second wife of Russell Sturgis, an American merchant and banker who was the head of Baring Brothers in London.