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William Smith (field hockey)

William Faulder Smith (14 November 1886 – 3 March 1937) was an English field hockey player from Carlisle, who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Smith was educated at Marlborough College and studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he won a blue in 1909.

After University he played club hockey for Beckenham and county hockey for Kent.

He also played for Blackheath, and later Lowestoft and the East.

In 1911, he made his England debut and during World War I he served as a lieutenant in the British Army.

At the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, he represented Great Britain at the hockey tournament.

After his playing career, he worked as a director in the family businesses: the textile manufacturers Stapley & Smith and the insurance brokers Smith & Burns.

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