How to make an ordinary name a little bit "posh"
Today's blog is about an entrepreneur who via marriage, gave his rather ordinary name a touch of class. His name is associated with railways, a tourist resort and one the of most palatial venues for a wedding in Sydney. HARRY “ CURZON” SMITH Harry was the born in Toronto Canada the eldest son of Hugh Thomas Smith and his wife Rebecca. Hugh was an engineer and was extremely successful in the gas and soda water manufacturing business. His improvements to the aerated water machinery in Toronto soon made him the leading manufacturer of soda fountains and dispensing machines in Canada and the USA. In 1877 Hugh moved with his family to Australia and set up a firm in Sydney that secured contracts to install gas lighting in Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and Tasmanian railway carriages. Harry commenced working with his father as a travelling salesman. Aged 23, in 1884, he married Isabella Curzon Webb. Isabella was related to George Curzon, First Marquess Curzon of Kedlesto...