Herbert James John Smith / Kingsley

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Milton Kingsley who writes:
They then moved from Leichhardt to 52 Albert St., Revesby Where there were three Smith families in a row. one family moved, the second stayed, and we changed from smith to Kingsley-Smith with the eventual dropping of the smith altogether.
my fathers father was a German immigrant sometime before 1920. His name was probably changed to Smith upon entry to Australia so we do not know any of the German heritage.
he married Violet Jewell one of her grandfathers was

Sir George Stuart White 1835-1912, British field marshal. He first achieved distinction in the Afghan War of 1878-80. In Myanmar (1885-87), where he was knighted in 1886, in Baluchistan (1889-93), and later as commander in chief in India (1893-98), he was an instrument of Great Britain's "forward" policy of combating any Russian advance toward India by aggressive campaigns, military and diplomatic, in the borderlands. His greatest fame came in the South African War when he defended Ladysmith against a 118-day siege by the Boers (1899-1900). He became governor of Gibraltar (1900-1904) and was made field marshal in 1903.

He is also (apparently) infamous for setting up the Ulster establishment to suppress the Irish Catholics and there is a festival in one of the protestant cities in Ireland in his honour each year.

• connection. Milton Kingsley's link to me is as follows:

Milton Kingsley (1956)
His father was Herbert Kingsley who married Betty Gibbins (1923)
Her father was Howard Gibbins (1891) who married Dorothea Pryor (1898)
Her father was Albert Pryor (1863) & he also had Philip Pryor (1889) who married Priscilla Benjamin (1895)
Her father was Robert Benjamin (1861)
They had Selina Benjamin (1892) who married Searl Archibald (1895)
They had John Searl (1923) who married Grace Brown
Her father was Herbert Brown (1878)
His father was Isaac Brown (1845) who married Matilda Stafford (1857)
Her father was William Stafford (1811) & he also William Stafford (1842)
He had Eva Stafford (1874) who married Arthur Clinton (1868)
They had James Clinton (1895) who married Martha Walker (1901)
Her father was Thomas Walker (1854)
His father was William Walker (c1820) & he also had Martha Walker (1865) who married John Sutherland (1861)
His father was John Sutherland (1829) who married Margaret Elliot (1835)
They had Elizabeth Sutherland (1863) who married John Nicol (1844)
They had Margaret Nicol (1889) who married G. A. Davies (1925)
He had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Herbert married someone Betty Pryor Gibbins, daughter of Howard George Gibbins and Dorothea Emiline Pryor, on 19 Dec 1945. (Betty Pryor Gibbins was born on 30 Sep 1923.)