John Boys Smith

John Sandwith Boys Smith (8 January 1901 – 3 November 1991) was a 20th-century British priest and academic.[https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp71859/john-sandwith-boys-smith NPG]

Boys Smith was born in Hordle, Hampshire, in 1901. He was educated at Sherborne School{{Who's Who | title=Smith, John Sandwith Boys | id = U195346 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = July2018 online | access-date = 25 July 2018 }} and St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1927.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929–30 p1157: London: University Press, 1929 After a curacy in Sutton Coldfield he returned to St John's where he was to stay until his retirement in 1969. He was its Chaplain from 1927 to 1934; a Fellow from 1927 until 1959; Tutor from 1934 to 1939; Junior Bursar from 1939 to 1944; Senior Bursar from 1944 to 1959; and Master from 1959Master Of St. John's College, Cambridge. The Times (London, England), Monday, Nov 02, 1959; pg. 12; Issue 54607 to 1969. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1963 to 1965.[https://www.v-c.admin.cam.ac.uk/role-vice-chancellor/history-vice-chancellorship University web-site] In 1968, he was made an honorary fellow of Trinity College Dublin.{{cite book |last=Webb |first=D.A. |editor-first=Barlett |editor-last=J.R.|date=1992 |title=Trinity College Dublin Record Volume 1991 |location=Dublin |publisher=Trinity College Dublin Press |isbn=1-871408-07-5|page=}} He died in Herne Hill in 1991.

His aunt was Winifred Boys-Smith, a university professor at Otago University. His brother was Humphry Boys-Smith DSO DSC RNR "one of the most successful Merchant Navy officers serving with the RNR during the second world war."{{Cite book |last=Twiston Davies |first=David |title=The Daily Telegraph Book of Naval Obituaries |publisher=Bounty Books |year=2007 |isbn=978-0753715307 |location=London |pages=288}} His grandson is Nicholas Boys Smith, founder of Create Streets.{{cn|date=July 2024}}