Family
His family gradually faded from the limelight. Smith’s half-sister Thyrza died in 1921 and his widow, Sarah Eleanor Smith, was hit and killed by a taxi in London in 1931. Their daughter, Helen Melville, married and gave birth to twins, Simon and Priscilla. Simon, a pilot in the Royal Air Force, was killed in World War II. Priscilla died from polio three years later; neither of them had children. Helen died in 1973.
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“Of all the vices, lewdness is the worst; of all the virtues, family duty is the first.”
—Chinese proverb.
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