^ Undergraduate at Balliol Archived at the Wayback Machine.South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times. "Doncaster History The History and Archaeology of the Doncaster region". ^ a b c d e "Death of Dr Lucius Smith, former bishop of Knaresborough".Marriages Mar 1884 Smith Lucius Frederick, and Lucy Catherine G. "The Early History of St Margaret's Church, Ilkley". Gale Primary Sources/The Times Digital Archive. Radcliffe-Wilson, 37 photographic plates. (Appendix, index, list of subscribers, frontispiece drawing of Lady Loft by P. The Story of Ripon Minster, A Study in Church History. Ī thoughtful cleric, devout patriot and historian, Lucius Smith died at Methley rectory on 31 December 1934. He was considered "an authority on architecture and archaeology," and produced various pamphlets and books, including The Story of Ripon Minster, besides religious tracts such as Penitence, Pardon and Progress and When Thou Hast Shut Thy Door. Alongside his ecumenical duties, he was concurrently president of the antiquarian Thoresby Society. Smith supported the temperance movement, and organisations for overseas missions. He resigned the Methley post around 1933 due to ill health, although he retained the archdeaconry of Leeds.
His last post from 1921 was rector of Methley, where in those early days of telecommunications his telephone number was Methley 8. He was also Archdeacon of Ripon during the same period, but his title was changed to Archdeacon of Leeds (1921-1934). On 27 December 1905 he behan his 29-year stint as Suffragan Bishop of Knaresborough. He had the Canon Residentiary of Ripon Cathedral from 1905 to 1921. Between 18 he was vicar of Calverley, and between 19 he was vicar of Macclesfield. In 1891 he became vicar of Easby with Brompton-on-Swale. He was successively curate of St Margaret Ilkley between 18, then took a curacy at Richmond for a year, 1890–1891. Smith accepted a curacy at St Thomas Toxteth Park, 1883–1886. Following Oxford, he studied for a year at Leeds Clergy School, and was ordained deacon and priest at Liverpool in 1883. At Balliol in 1880 he took second class Classical Honour Moderations, and in 1882 he graduated with Bachelor of Arts. Smith was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. His cousin Walter Shirley Shirely QC MP (1851-1888) was elected the first Member of Parliament for the Doncaster Division in 1885 - he too also attended Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. His Uncle Arthur Joseph Smith (1825-1891) was three times Lord Mayor of Doncaster, another uncle William Edwood Smith was twice Lord Mayor of Doncaster and Town Clerk. In the paternal line, Lucius Smith's grandfather was Joseph Smith (1792-1841) Alderman and Burgess of Doncaster and his great grandfather William Smith (1767-1829) merchant and property owner in Rotherham and Whitehouse near Greasborough. Bernard was director of music at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford.
They had two sons Bernard Richard Lucius (later Reverend) and Frederick, and three daughters. Smith took on the extra names "Moses Bottomley" at the time of the marriage.
In the Wharfedale area in 1884, Lucius Smith married Lucy Catherine Gibson Bottomley (1863–1937), daughter of Moses Bottomley (born 1829) JP of Rawdon and Susannah Ingham (born 1840).
His father was the Reverend Frederick Smith (1823-1874) of Woodleigh Hall, Rawdon, Vicar of Shelf, West Yorkshire. Lucius Frederick Smith was born on 6 January 1860 into a clerical family.
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