SMITH, Sir John Mark Frederick (1790-1874), of 39 Hyde Park Square, London and Buckland House, Dover, Kent
2nd lt. Royal Engineers 1805, 1st lt. 1806, capt. 1811, lt.-col. 1830, col. 1846, maj.-gen. 1854, lt.-gen. 1859, col. commdt. 1860, gen. 1863.
Dir. Royal Engineers Chatham 1842 – 51; commdr. royal engineers Portsmouth 1851 – 55, Aldershot 1855 – 56; Inspector, Military College of the East India Co. 1856–7.
Extra gent. usher privy chamber 1833, ordinary gentleman usher 1834 – d.
Inspector-general railways 1840 – 41; royal commissioner railway gauges 1845 – 46, metropolitan railway termini 1846, promotion and recruitment in the army 1858, harbours of refuge 1858–9.
FRS; associate, Institute of Civil Engineers, 1841 – d.
