Charles Howard Smith

Charles Howard Smith was a British diplomat.
Smith was educated at Winchester and Brasenose College, Oxford, before joining the British Foreign Office in 1912. He remained in the diplomatic service throughout World War I and the inter-war period, during which he was private secretary to the then Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Cecil Harmsworth Parliament of [the United Kingdom|MP] 1920–22. Smith was himself eventually appointed Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1933. In October 1939 he took up the position of List of [Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Denmark|Minister to Copenhagen], but was forced to leave upon the German invasion of Denmark in April 1940. Following his departure from Copenhagen he became the first British List of Ambassadors of [the United Kingdom to Iceland|Minister to Reykjavik]. He died in his post in July 1942.