Rodney Smith, Baron Smith

{{short description|British surgeon}}

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Edwin Rodney Smith, Baron Smith KBE FRCS (10 May 1914 – 1 July 1998) was a British surgeon.‘SMITH’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U181982 accessed 10 Sept 2013]{{Cite web|url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E000355b.htm|title = Smith, Rodney, Baron Smith of Marlow in the County of Buckinghamshire (1914 - 1998)}}

He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1975 New Year Honours{{London Gazette |issue=46444 |date=1 January 1975 |page=8 |supp=y}} and created a life peer as Baron Smith, of Marlow in the County of Buckinghamshire on 8 July 1978.{{London Gazette |issue=47595 |date=18 July 1978 |page=8631}} He served as president of the Royal Society of Medicine between 1978 and 1980.

He was a strong bridge player.{{cite journal |title=Lord Smith of Marlow{{dot}}John Aitken{{dot}}James ("Jimmy") George Ledingham{{dot}}Robert ("Bob") Murray{{dot}}Arthur Salmon ("Sam") Wigfield{{dot}}John Frederick Wilkinson |first=Harold |last=Ellis |authorlink=Harold Ellis (surgeon) |journal=British Medical Journal |volume=318 |issue = 7176|page=129 |date=9 January 1999 |doi=10.1136/bmj.318.7176.129 |pmid = 9880305|pmc=1114594 }}

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