Henry Beardmore Smyth (1847–95)

Medical assistant and medical student. Assistant at the time of his death to Dr Shackelton of Poplar, London. Married Ellen Denham in Hackney, 1871. Died as a result of taking prussic acid. Collected moths.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1891 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG12/135/6/5)

Chemist and Druggist, 15 March 1895, p. 366

letter from H. B. Smyth, 15 January 1876

London, England, marriages & banns 1754–1921 (Ancestry.com, accessed 27 January 2016)