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     Adrienne Sylvia Naftel was born on 16 October 1891 in Seacombe, Cheshire, England.^1,2,3,4,5 She married Percival Frere-Smith, son of Charles Thomas Smith and Julia Emily Greathead, in 1919 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England.⁶ Her husband Percival died on January 1960 in Sutton Valence, Kent, England, aged 82.^1,2,7 She died in 1974 in Maidstone, Kent, England.^4,8

     Geoffrey Natfel Frere-Smith was born on 12 June 1920 in Paddington, London, England.^1,2,3,4 He was the son of Percival Frere-Smith and Adrienne Sylvia Naftel. He was a sculptor. He married Margaret Hole in 1951 in Maidstone, Kent, England.⁵ He died in September 2003 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, aged 83.⁶

     Margaret Hole married Geoffrey Natfel Frere-Smith, son of Percival Frere-Smith and Adrienne Sylvia Naftel, in 1951 in Maidstone, Kent, England.³

     Matthew Frere-Smith was born on 16 May 1923 in Paddington, London, England.^1,2,3,4 He was the son of Percival Frere-Smith and Adrienne Sylvia Naftel. He was a sculptor.⁵ He married Patricia J C A Jacob Ryall in 1950 in Surrey, England.⁶ He died in December 1999 in North Walsham, Norfolk, England, aged 76.⁷

     Patricia J C A Jacob Ryall was born in 1929 in Croydon, London, England.³ She married Matthew Frere-Smith, son of Percival Frere-Smith and Adrienne Sylvia Naftel, in 1950 in Surrey, England.⁴

     Christopher Newman Frere-Smith was born on 28 March 1928 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England.^3,4,5 He was the son of Percival Frere-Smith and Adrienne Sylvia Naftel. He married Josephine N Wissa in 1956 in London, England, Josephine was Christophers first wife.⁶ He married Renee D M M Moutinho in 1959 in Chelsea, London, England.⁷ He was a lawyer. He married Greta N Forster in 1968 in St Marylebone, London, England.⁸ He died in October 2000 in Westminster, London, England, aged 72.⁹ An obituary appeared in the Telegraph of 4 November. It Read: original Euro-sceptic who led the campaign to keep Britain out of the Common Market in the early 1970s

CHRISTOPHER FRERE-SMITH, who has died aged 72, founded the Keep Britain Out (of the Common Market) campaign and then, following Britain's accession, the Get Britain Out campaign.

Over the next 12 years he waged a principled, single-minded but often lonely war against Britain's entry, arguing that the underlying purposes of the EEC were political not economic, as the British people were being led to believe. He stood twice for Parliament. In 1966, at the St Marylebone seat of Quintin Hogg (now Lord Hailsham), he polled 445 votes as an anti-EEC candidate. In 1972, he got 1,332 votes at a by-election in Sutton and Cheam.

Frere-Smith combined uncompromising views with a flair for publicity. In 1967 he led a delegation to the Elysee Palace to present a letter to President de Gaulle assuring him that the majority of the British people were opposed to membership.

The same year, after the Labour government decided to apply to join, he appeared on the steps of 10 Downing Street at the head of a procession of "mourners" behind a coffin purporting to contain the mortal remains of British democracy. In 1970, he warned bemused officials at the European Commission in Brussels that there would be so much "trouble" in the Community if Britain joined that a future parliament would be compelled to take the country out again.

"We like you," he told a sceptical press in Brussels. "We enjoy coming here for holidays. But we are a maritime nation, depending for its livelihood on trading with the world, with connections throughout the world and in the Commonwealth developed over centuries."

Frere-Smith was one of the first to recognise the value of conducting mini-referendums in individual constituencies as a way of drawing attention to public feeling on particular issues. In 1971 he paid for three such polls, all of which resulted in a majority against Britain's entry.

In January 1972, he was arrested by Brussels police outside the Palais d'Egmont after refusing to end his protest against Britain's accession to the Common Market, which was to due to be finalised by treaty that day. Later that year, Frere-Smith and 250 other demonstrators were involved in a brawl with French police aboard a cross-channel ferry after they had been refused permission to disembark at Calais to attend a meeting.

"Only last week the French prime minister said the new Europe would be an oasis of public and private liberty," Frere-Smith declared to the rousing strains of Rule Britannia! "But look at it. This afternoon we have had a taste of what French democracy is all about."

As chairman of Get Britain Out, Frere-Smith was prominent during the referendum in 1975 on whether to stay in the Common Market. He compared those who supported Britain's continued membership to those who had advocated appeasement of Germany during the 1930s.

After the referendum confirmed Britain's membership, the Get Britain Out campaign disbanded and Frere-Smith faded from the political scene. But he warned: "It is our belief, now that the campaign is over, that our partners will proceed full steam ahead towards political union." He added that he believed that the British people had not voted for economic and monetary union, for integration in a federal state or for the transfer of more powers from Parliament to Brussels.

Christopher Newman Frere-Smith was born on March 28 1928 and educated at Sutton Downs School, Kent. He did National Service in the Rifle Brigade and then read Law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was secretary of the University Liberal Club. He remained an active Liberal until the late 1950s, when he left the party after deciding that it no longer had a coherent set of policies. From 1955 he worked as a solicitor in sole practice in Upper Berkeley Street, Mayfair.

In 1973 he became the first solicitor to appear and speak on behalf of a client at the Old Bailey (until 1972 solicitors had only been allowed to argue cases in the lower courts). During the 1970s he served as a deputy Crown Court judge. From the late 1950s until his death, he chaired the management committee of Caius House, Battersea, a charitable foundation working with young people.

Christopher Frere-Smith was married three times. He is survived by his third wife, Norma, whom he married in 1968, and by their daughter and two sons.⁵

     Josephine N Wissa married Christopher Newman Frere-Smith, son of Percival Frere-Smith and Adrienne Sylvia Naftel, in 1956 in London, England, Josephine was Christophers first wife.³ She married Benedict J Conrad in 1963 in Kensington, London, England.⁴

     Ida Emily Fuller was born in 1881 in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.³ She was the daughter of Cyrus Edgar Fuller and Sarah Mason.³ She married Leonard Bagshawe-Smith, son of Charles Thomas Smith and Julia Emily Greathead, in 1904 Ida was Leonard's first wife.³ On hearing the sad death of her two youngest sons Philip and Quentin she had a heart attack and remained an invalid until her death.³ She died in 1944 in East London, Cape Town, South Africa.³

     Leonard Bagshawe-Smith was born in 1905 in Standerton, South Africa.^1,2,4 He was the son of Leonard Bagshawe-Smith and Ida Emily Fuller. He was a farmer. He married Cynthia Harris There were no children from this marriage.⁴ He died on 3 April 1985.^1,2

     Cynthia Harris married Leonard Bagshawe-Smith, son of Leonard Bagshawe-Smith and Ida Emily Fuller, There were no children from this marriage.⁴

     Ellerie Bagshawe-Smith was born on 13 May 1906.^1,2 She was the daughter of Leonard Bagshawe-Smith and Ida Emily Fuller. She was working in Haute Couture, the Rag trade. She married Rupert Fricker on 13 June 1931.^1,2

     Sydney Quentin Bagshawe-Smith was born in 1916 in East London, Cape Town, South Africa.^1,2,3 He was the son of Leonard Bagshawe-Smith and Ida Emily Fuller. He married Frances Margaret Von Der Meden on 3 April 1940 in East London, Cape Town, South Africa.^2,3 He was a farmer. He died on 22 May 1941 During battle of Crete whilst on active service with the South African Naval Forces. Quentin was killed by the same bomb that killed brother Philip on the same ship, HMS Gloucester.^1,2,4,3

     Philip Raymond Bagshawe-Smith was born in 1923 in East London, Cape Town, South Africa.^1,2,3 He was the son of Leonard Bagshawe-Smith and Ida Emily Fuller. He died on 22 May 1941 in Crete During battle of Crete whilst on active service with the South African Naval Forces. Quentin was killed by the same bomb that killed brother Quentin on the same ship, HMS Gloucester.^1,2,4,3

     Charles Kendrick Hall married Adeline Emily Smith, daughter of Charles Thomas Smith and Julia Emily Greathead, in June 1914 They lived on a farm called "The Willows" in Middleberg district of the Cape.^1,2

     Maurice Pare was born on 14 May 1883 in Fulham, London, England.^1,2,3,4 He was the Govenor of Seychelles in 1913.⁵ He married Agnes Ninita Smith, daughter of Charles Thomas Smith and Julia Emily Greathead, in November 1913.¹ He died in 1946.³

     Elsa Mary Pare was born on 12 September 1914 in Seychelles.^1,2 She was the daughter of Maurice Pare and Agnes Ninita Smith. She was a teacher. She died in 1995.^1,2

     Peter Irvine Pare was born on 11 January 1916 in Seychelles.^1,2 He was the son of Maurice Pare and Agnes Ninita Smith. He was a Travel Agent. He married Stella Brooke-Smith.

     Nancy Dorothy Pare was born on 18 September 1918 in Nederberg, Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa.^1,3,4 She was the daughter of Maurice Pare and Agnes Ninita Smith. She married Robert Clarke. She died in 1990.²