Randall Hugh Vivian Smith, 2nd Baron Bicester (9 January 1898 – 15 January 1968) was an English

England

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 businessman.

Born in London in 1898, the eldest son of the Vivian Smith, later created 1st Baron Bicester

Vivian Smith, 1st Baron Bicester

Vivian Hugh Smith, 1st Baron Bicester was a British merchant banker.Smith was the son of Hugh Colin Smith and Constance Maria Josepha , and grandson of John Abel Smith. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge...

 and his wife Lady Sybil Mary McDonnell, daughter of William Randal McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim. He was educated at Eton

Eton College

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 and Sandhurst

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

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. He served with the 17th Lancers

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, rising to the rank of Lieutenant

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 and on 29 November 1922, he married Hon. Dorothea Gwenllian James, a daughter of the 3rd Baron Northbourne and they had two daughters. During his business years, he was a director of Morgan, Grenfell & Co.

Morgan, Grenfell & Co.

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, Shell Transport and Trading

Royal Dutch Shell

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, Vickers

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 and the Bank of England

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. He was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1945 and succeeded to his father's title of Baron Bicester

Baron Bicester

Baron Bicester, of Tusmore in the County of Oxford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 29 June 1938 for the businessman Vivian Smith. the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his uncle in 1968....

 in 1956.

Randall was killed in 1968, aged 70 in a motor accident. Without male issue, his title passed to his nephew, Angus.