Edwin Rodney Smith, Baron Smith KBE FRCS (10 May 1914 - 1 July 1998) was a British surgeon.[1] [2]
He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1975 New Year Honours and created a life peer as Baron Smith, of Marlow in the County of Buckinghamshire on 8 July 1978. He served as president of the Royal Society of Medicine between 1978 and 1980.
He was a strong bridge player.[3]
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