Vassar-Smith Baronets
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The Vassar-Smith Baronetcy, of Charlton Park in Charlton Kings in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 10 July 1917 for the businessman Richard Vassar-Smith. He was Chairman of Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Bank Plc was a British retail bank which operated in England and Wales from 1765 until its merger into Lloyds TSB in 1995; it remains a registered company but is currently dormant. It expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and took over a number of smaller banking companies...

, of the Gloucester Wagon Company Ltd, of the Gloucester Gas Light Company and of Port Talbot steelworks and also served as Mayor of Gloucester
Gloucester
Gloucester is a city, district and county town of Gloucestershire in the South West region of England. Gloucester lies close to the Welsh border, and on the River Severn, approximately north-east of Bristol, and south-southwest of Birmingham....

. Born Richard Smith, he had assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Vassar in 1904.

Vassar-Smith Baronets, of Charlton Park (1917)

  • Sir Richard Vassar Vassar-Smith, 1st Baronet (1843–1922)
  • Sir John George Lawley Vassar-Smith, 2nd Baronet (1868–1942)
  • Sir Richard Rathborne Vassar-Smith, 3rd Baronet (1909–1995)
  • Sir John Rathborne Vassar-Smith, 4th Baronet (b. 1936)
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