Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,710 pages of information and 247,104 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

James Lethley Smeall

From Graces Guide

James Lethley Smeall (1907-1998)

1907 Born at Jedburgh the son of William Francis Smeall, a Doctor, and his wife Ethel Mary Lethley.

Son of a Yorkshire doctor

Went from Highgate School to Queens', Cambridge, where a First in English

After "finishing" at the Sorbonne, he went into school teaching

1936 Married Joan Rachel Harris

1939 Appointed headmaster of Chesterfield Grammar School.

Principal of St Luke's College of Education, Exeter,

1964/65 Mayor of Exeter


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