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"Brigadier Michael James Babington Smith (20 March 1901 – 26 October 1984), known in London as MJBS, was a British banker, sportsman and soldier from the Babington family. During the Second World War, he served under General Dwight D. Eisenhower as Director of Finance at SHAEF from 1943 to 1945. Following the war, he was a director of the Bank of England for two decades. He served as treasurer of the National Art Collections Fund and was twice High Sheriff of the County of London. Early life and education Babington Smith was born in Constantinople in 1901, the son of Sir Henry Babington Smith, a British civil servant who was serving on the council of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration, and later became a director of the Bank of England. His paternal grandfather was lawyer and mathematician Archibald Smith of Jordanhill and his brothers were MP James Parker Smith and curator Arthur Hamilton Smith, Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum His mother was Lady Elisabeth Bruce, daughter of the 9th Earl of Elgin, who was Viceroy of India from 1894 to 1899. Michael was the eldest of 10 children; one of his younger sisters was journalist Constance Babington Smith MBE (1911–2000). Another sister, Lucy, married Henry Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland. His brother Bernard Babington Smith OBE (1905–1993) was an author and wartime photographer. Michael attended Eton College, where he had a successful cricket career, followed by Trinity College, Cambridge. He was active in various other sports throughout his life, including shooting, stalking and fencing. He was a five-time finalist in the British foil championships and was captain of the England fencing team in 1931. Career =Banking career= In 1923, Babington Smith joined Glyn, Mills & Co. He spent 50 years at the bank, becoming a partner in 1932, the managing director in 1938, and deputy chairman in 1946. In 1946, he was appointed to the Court of Directors of the Bank of England. He was appointed a director of the Bank of England in 1949, a first for a director of a clearing bank, a position he held for 20 years. Babington Smith spent his entire career with Glyn's, but also served as a director for numerous other institutions, including the Bank for International Settlements (1965–74), the London Committee for the Ottoman Bank (from 1947; serving as chairman, 1975–82), the Royal Bank of Scotland (1938–63), (1957–74), and the holding company AEI (1949–68). =Military service= Babington Smith was part of the Officer Training Corps at Cambridge and was commissioned into the Territorial Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Leicestershire Yeomanry, in 1925. When the Second World War began in 1939, he was called up with the Yeomanry and spent the first two years of the war with the Home Guard. From 1941 to 1943, Babington Smith served in Africa as financial controller of the newly liberated Italian colonies in East Africa. In 1943, he was recalled to England to serve as an assistant to US Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). Promoted to Brigadier, Babington Smith was Director of Finance at SHAEF until 1945, tasked with planning the financial aspects of the Allied invasion and subsequent administration of Western Europe. Honours In April 1945, Babington Smith was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, military division, for his service during the Second World War. He was also decorated as a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honeur avec Palme and the Croix de Guerre. Personal life In 1943, Babington Smith married Jean Mary, daughter of Admiral Hon. Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh and granddaughter of Admiral of the Fleet Richard Meade, 4th Earl of Clanwilliam. They had one son, Alan (born 1946); and two daughters, Louisa (born 1944), wife of James Richard Macfarlane, Coldstream Guards; and Susan (born 1950), wife of John Henry Hemming. Babington Smith never officially retired, but in later years he suffered from crippling arthritis and was further disabled by a car accident. He died in London in 1984, aged 83. In 1990, his widow was raised to the rank of an earl's daughter by royal warrant, entitled to be styled as Lady Jean Babington Smith. She died 22 November 2001. Ancestry References External links * Michael Babington Smith at CricketArchive 1901 births 1984 deaths British bankers People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English cricketers English male fencers Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France) Businesspeople from London People associated with the Bank of England High Sheriffs of the County of London People from Constantinople Vilayet Michael "
"Chanakya Public School (CPS) is a CBSE-affiliated English medium educational institute located at Satna, Madhya Pradesh, India. I P Singh, the school's founder, is also a renowned architect and has contributed to the growth and development of architecture within and neighboring places at Satna. 300x300px Soccer field at Chanakya Public School History Established in 1997, CPS is one of the first schools in Satna to be affiliated with CBSE. The school has progressed to be one of the best institutions across the town. It started with about 500 students enrolled, and now has approximately 1000 students. Campus A state-of-the-art facility, the school campus has football, basketball, badminton and volleyball courts. The school also a provides high- end security system to safeguard students' safety. With a large team size to support this vast infrastructure, Chanakya Public School is recognized for its well planned campus. Front view of CPS Science exhibition at school References Satna district Schools in Madhya Pradesh "
"Richard Paul Kiliani (29 June 1861 – 7 November 1927) was a German diplomat and author, who served as the Consul-General of Germany for Australia from 1911 to 1914. Early life and education Born in Munich in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1861, Kiliani studied in Munich and entered the Imperial Foreign Office in 1887. Diplomatic career In 1888 he was assigned to the Prussian embassy in Hamburg, and thereafter served as Consul in Kovno, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire (1889–1892), Basel, Switzerland (1893–1895) and Bucharest, Romania (1895–1905). On 28 March 1905 he was appointed to succeed the deceased Hans Hermann Eschke as Consul-General of Germany at Singapore, with responsibility for the Straits Settlements and Cocos Keeling and Christmas Islands, Johore, the Federated Malay States, the Colony of Labuan, British North Borneo, Brunei and the Kingdom of Sarawak. On 25 May 1911, Kiliani was appointed to succeed Dr Georg Irmer as German Consul-General for Australia in Sydney, with responsibility for "the Commonwealth of Australia, Papua, New Zealand, the Fiji Islands, and the British Islands in the Southern Seas, situated between Tonga and the French Possessions."Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No. 40, 27 May 1911, p. 1485. Kiliani arrived in Sydney in November 1911 on board the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer Prinz Waldemar. With the British Empire's declaration of war against Germany on 4 August 1914, Kiliani was promptly recalled and left Sydney with his wife, together with the Austro-Hungarian Consul-General, Dr Ferdinand Freyersleben, and his chancellor, Karl Clette, on board the American Oceanic Steamship Company SS Ventura on 29 August 1914. In November 1914 he was transferred to non-active status, but continued to be employed as head of the press office in the Foreign Office. In 1920-21 he served as Consul General in Amsterdam, and from 1921 until 1924, he headed the passport office in Salzburg before his retirement. References - 1861 births 1927 deaths Ambassadors of Germany to Australia Ambassadors of Germany to Singapore "