Hugh Thomas Smith, OBE, [1] AKC was Chaplain-General of Prisons from 1946 to 1961. [2]
Smith was born in 1896, educated at King's College London and ordained in 1928. After a curacy at St Katherine Coleman, Hammersmith he became a prison chaplain, serving at Leeds, Parkhurst, Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubs before his years as head of the service.
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