| Honorific Prefix: | Sir |
| William Haynes-Smith | |
| Office: | High Commissioner of Cyprus |
| Term Start: | 23 April 1898 |
| Term End: | 17 October 1904 |
| Predecessor: | Sir Walter Joseph Sendall |
| Successor: | Sir Charles King-Harman |
| Office1: | Governor of the Bahamas |
| Term Start1: | 1895 |
| Term End1: | 1898 |
| Monarch1: | Victoria |
| Predecessor1: | Sir Ambrose Shea |
| Successor1: | Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter |
| Office2: | Governor of Antigua and Barbuda |
| Term Start2: | 1888 |
| Term End2: | 1895 |
| Predecessor2: | Sir Charles Mitchell |
| Successor2: | Sir Francis Fleming |
| Office3: | Acting Governor of British Guiana |
| Term Start3: | 26 April 1884 |
| Term End3: | 1884 |
| Monarch3: | Victoria |
| Predecessor3: | Sir Henry Turner Irving |
| Successor3: | Sir Henry Turner Irving |
| Office4: | Attorney General of British Guiana |
| Term Start4: | 1874 |
| Term End4: | 1888 |
| Predecessor4: | Joseph Trounsell Gilbert |
| Successor4: | John Worrell Carrington |
| Birth Name: | William Frederick Haynes-Smith |
| Birth Date: | 26 June 1839 |
| Birth Place: | Blackheath, Kent |
| Death Place: | Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire |
| Parents: | Sir John Lucie-Smith Marie van Waterschoodt |
| Relations: | Michael Villiers (grandson) Sir Alfred Lucie-Smith (brother) |
Sir William Frederick Haynes-Smith (26 June 1839 – 18 December 1928) was an English colonial administrator in the British Empire.[1]
Haynes-Smith was born in Blackheath, Kent on 26 June 1839. He was the fifth son of John Lucie Smith L.L.D. and Martha Bean. He was Uncle to Sir Alfred Lucie-Smith, who was also a colonial judge who married first Rose Alice Emerentiana Aves and second Meta Mary Ross (a daughter of Sir David Palmer Ross).[2]
He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1863, and shortly after was sent to British Guiana as Solicitor-General.[2] In 1874, he was appointed Attorney-General. A decade later, he served as acting Governor for a few months, which he also did 1887.[3] In November 1888, he was appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands, followed by a transfer to the Bahamas in 1895.[4] [5] [6] He served as High Commissioner of Cyprus from 1898 to 1904.[1]
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1887, and knighted in the same order in 1890.[1]
In 1867, he was married to Ellen Parkinson White (1838–1923) at Tunbridge Wells.[7] Ellen was a daughter of English-born James Thomas White (son of Dr. Andrew White FRCS) and Anne Gordon Hubbard (daughter of John Hubbard and Jane (née Parkinson) Hubbard). Ellen's aunt, Mary Greene Hubbard, was the second wife of Russell Sturgis, an American merchant and banker who was the head of Baring Brothers in London.[8] Together, they were the parents of a son and a daughter:[4]
In 1920, he purchased Brandon Park in Suffolk.[14] He died at Turleigh Mill in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire on 18 December 1928.[15]
Through his daughter Anne, he was a grandfather of Vice Admiral Sir Michael Villiers, the Fourth Sea Lord and Vice Controller of the Navy.[12]