Robert Ranulph Marett, Obituary: Chancellor P. V. Smith (1929)
“ The value of Chancellor Smith's life and example is not to be measured merely by the offices which he held. By his sincerity and devotion, even more than by hi intellectual gifts, he won the respect and affection of men of all schools of thought. ”
Robert Ranulph Marett, Obituary: Chancellor P. V. Smith (1929)
“ But he was not one who could lure people into agreement with him. They must accept his argument or go their own way. So his real contribution to the life of the Church, and especially of the clergy, is best seen in the little handbook already referred to, which he wrote for the series edited by the late canon Arthur Robinson, of Canterbury. It is the two great volumes of Phillimore in a nutshell—which, indeed, is a not inapt description of the well-loved figure of P. V. Smith. ”
Robert Ranulph Marett, Obituary: Chancellor P. V. Smith (1929)
“ Smith was constantly engaged. He was appointed Chancellor of the dioceses of Manchester in 1894, Durham in 1903, Ripon in 1912, and Blackburn in 1927. A member of the Canterbury House of Laymen on its formation in 1887, he was vice-chairman from 1910 to 1920, and he was licensed as a lay reader in the diocese of London in 1891. ”
