Kenelm Stanley Smith (1881-1934)
of London & Cairo; Director of the British American Tobacco Company
He was born at Quebec and was educated in England at Clifton College, Bristol. He graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and in 1900 was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant into the King's Royal Rifle Corps, seeing action in the Boer (South African) War. On retiring from the army in 1906, Smith worked for the British American Tobacco Company. He represented the company in Thailand, Singapore and then Cairo when he was added to the board of the African Cigarette Company. In 1922, he returned to London when he was made a director of British American Tobacco with responsibility for the Eastern Co., headquartered in Cairo.
He lived between 35 Avenue Road in Regent's Park, London, and Cairo where he married Lemma, "a prominent society lady" and one of the daughters of Ahmed Izzet Pacha el-Abed. They were divorced in 1933, the same year that she married Carl Fleischmann Holmes, of New York, co-heir to the Fleischmann Yeast fortune. K. Stanley Smith died early the following year without children. He was buried in Cairo but his memorial service (attended by his ex-wife) was held at St. John’s Church, Smith Square, London.
He lived between 35 Avenue Road in Regent's Park, London, and Cairo where he married Lemma, "a prominent society lady" and one of the daughters of Ahmed Izzet Pacha el-Abed. They were divorced in 1933, the same year that she married Carl Fleischmann Holmes, of New York, co-heir to the Fleischmann Yeast fortune. K. Stanley Smith died early the following year without children. He was buried in Cairo but his memorial service (attended by his ex-wife) was held at St. John’s Church, Smith Square, London.
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Contributed by Mark Meredith on 03/11/2022 and last updated on 29/12/2022.
Image (copyright expired) from The Global Cigarette Origins & Evolution of British American Tobacco, 1880-1945, by Professor Howard Cox.