DEATH OF MR. J. C.
BICKFORD-SMITH, OF
TREVARNO

HIGH SHERIFF OF CORNWALL.

The death occurred in the early hours of Friday morning., of Mr. John Clifford Bickford-Smith,  of   Trevarno,  Helston, at  the  age  of  59.       His twin brother,  Mr.  W.  N.  Bickford-Smith,     died  in March, 1939. 

Mr.  J.  C.  Bickford-Smith.   who  was a director of the firm of  Bickford, Smith and Co., Ltd., of Tuckingtnill, was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Bickford-Smith, of Trevarno, and was born at the time when his father was M.P.   for the Truro-Helston Division  in the Liberal interests.      He  was a man of wide and varied interests, and in his early days was with his brother a prominent member of the Cornwall County Cricket Club, and played for the county for many years, keeping wicket. He also captained the side. 

He was a Governor of Camborne School Mines, a Justice of the Peace, being the senior member of Camborne Bench, and short while ago was ap-pointed  High  Sheriff of Cornwall.   He was President of the Royal Cornwall Infirmary at Truro, and had been Presi-dent of the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Society. 

Mr. Bickford-Smith was a devout Methodist and a member of the Synod. He was joint treasurer of the Camborne Methodist District Financial Assess-ment Committee, and had a life-long connection with Chynhale Methodist Chapel . Although he had been in failing health for the past year he had con-tinued to the last in all his normal ac-tivities, more particularly in his as-sociation with the firm and the county hospital. 

He is survived his wife and there is one surviving son. Mr. M. Bickford- Smith, of Mawnan Smith.