Frederick Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead

Frederick William Robin Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead (* April 17, 1936, † 16 February 1985 in Spa, Belgium ) was a British writer.

Life

Smith was born in 1936 as son of Frederick Smith ( 1907-1975 ), 2nd Earl of Birkenhead, and the Hon Sheila Berry. He was the grandson of Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead ( 1872-1930 ).

Smith first attended Eton College in Eton (Berkshire ) and then studied at Christ Church College, Oxford University.

Until the title of " Earl of Birkenhead " with his father's death in 1975 was transferred to him, he brought the Höflichtkeitstitel a " Viscount Furneaux ". Under the style similar to this item pseudonym Robin Furneaux Birkenhead was active since the 1960s as a writer. So he put 1967 "The Amazon: The Story of a Great River " in front, a report on an expedition company in Amazon, and in 1974 stopped his biography of Antisklavereiaktionisten William Wilberforce done, for which he was in 1975 awarded the " Heinemann Award."

Birkenhead died in 1985 during a tennis game in the " Spa Tennis and Squash Club ," a heart attack. He was so that his noble title " Earl of Birkenhead, Viscount Furneaux, Bart Smith " extinguished unmarried and without heirs.

Works

• The Amazon: The Story of a Great River, Putnam Pub Group, January 1967, ISBN 0399100180 ISBN 978-0399100185 and
• William Wilberforce, Hamish Hamilton, 1974, reprint 2006, ISBN 978-1573833431