Frederick Smithwick

Smithwick was ordained deacon in 1902 and priest in 1903. He was curate at Tralee from 1902 to 1904, then curate to the Forces at Aldershot, Bloemfontein and elsewhere, as well as to the British Expeditionary Force, from 1906 to 1931. He was rector of Ladbroke with Radbourne, Warwickshire from 1931 to 1936.^[2][3]

Smithwick married firstly, in 1908, Violet Irene (d. 1922), daughter of William Perry Odlum, of Huntington, Queen's County, by whom he had two sons and two daughters. He married secondly Adelaide Florence, daughter of Fitzadam Millar, of Monkstown, Dublin. He had bought Youghal House, Nenagh, county Tipperary, from his second cousin Charles Smithwick in 1935, becoming head of the Tipperary Smithwick family. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Major John Standish de Chair Smithwick (1915–1994),^[4] of the Royal Artillery.^[5]

• Frederick Smithwick at Scrum.com
• IRFU Profile Archived 20 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
• Jones, Stephen (1994). Rothmans Rugby Union Yearbook 1994-95. Headline. ISBN 0-7472-7850-4.

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