Reginald Southwell Smith

Reginald Southwell Smith (1809–1896) was an English priest of the Church of England, known for evangelical views. Early life He was the fourth son of Sir John Wyldbore Smith, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Elizabeth Anne Marriott. He was educated at Winchester College, and matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1826, graduating B.A. in 1830, M.A. in 1834. He rowed stroke in the Balliol boat.# Smith was ordained, and became a curate to Frederick Parry Hodges, a Fellow of Winchester College, at Lyme Regis. According to Smith's granddaughter Lady Grogan, Hodges was autocratic. John Fowles wrote that Hodges had "an equal detestation of both Calvin and Rome." Wanklyn wrote in Lyme Regis: A Retrospect (1922): In doctrine Dr. Hodges was an Evangelical of the school predominant in the Church of England in his young days, before the starting of the Oxford movement. His sermons, which constantly overran the hour, were chiefly directed against Romanism as the enemy [...].