Frederick William Robin Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead (1936 - 16 February, 1985). Smith, the grandson of a British Lord Chancellor, succeeded to the Earldom upon his father's death in 1975. Writing under his pen name of Robin Furneaux (his courtesy title prior to his father's death) Lord Birkenhead won the Heinemann Award in 1975 for his biography of the antislavery campaigner William Wilberforce (ISBN 978157383343). He also was known for his book The Amazon, based on an expedition he made along the South American river in 1968. He died of a heart attack whilst playing Real Tennis at the Leamington Spa Tennis and Squash Club. The title became extinct upon his death.
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| Preceded by Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith |
Earl of Birkenhead 1975 – 1985 |
Extinct |
