George Frederick Darwall Smith was educated at the University of Oxford where he obtained the degree of BA with first class honours in the final school of Natural Sciences in 1896. He came to St George's Hospital for the clinical course, and graduated in medicine in 1901. In 1902 he took the Conjoin

Born 30 September 1873 at Isleworth Vicarage, the younger son of the Rev H W P Richards, prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral, and his wife Jessie Margaret, daughter of the Rt Hon Peter Erie, QC, PC. He was a King's Scholar at Eton 1887-92, from whence he went up to New College, Oxford; he took first-c