Willie Reardon Smith

Sir Willie Reardon-Smith, 2nd Baronet (26 May 1887–24 November 1950), was a 20th-century British shipowner.

Life

OStJ decoration

The elder son of Sir William Reardon Smith, 1st Baronet,^[1] and his wife Ellen Hamlyn (1857–1939), he assumed the additional surname of Reardon by Deed Poll in 1929. Reardon-Smith succeeded his father as owner of the South Wales shipping company Reardon Smith Line, and served as a Justice of the Peace for Glamorgan.

A director of Cardiff Docks, the London Assurance Company and many shipping companies, Sir Willie served as High Sheriff of Glamorgan (1946/47), being appointed OStJ and was a Trustee of the National Museum of Wales.^[2]

Family

Sir Willie married Elizabeth Wakely in 1910, having four sons and a daughter, including Major Sir William Reardon-Smith, 3rd Baronet (1911–1995), late 34th LAA Regt (TA), who succeeded him in the baronetcy.^[3]

See also

• Reardon-Smith baronets