Sunday, 22 September 2013

One of the descendants of JHH Smale, Alfred Gardner Pickthall Hodgson,  looks rather interesting ... 

Firstly, to see where he fits in:

Daughter of JHH Smale
Charlotte E Smale
Born: 1851 Woolwich
Married:  Joseph Ralph W Bridle
Born: 1849 Portsea, Parents: Charles James Bridle and Jane E Smith

Children:
Lillian Charlotte, b 1876, Portsea (see below)
Claude Hamilton:  b 1881 Portsea, no issue


Their daughter: Lillian Charlotte Bridle
Called herself Lillian Paumier when an actress

Married: 1895 Manchester to Alfred Gardner Pickthall Hodgson (Paumier)(see bottom of this article)

Children:
Ronald Harker Joseph Alfred Ralph Pickthall , Christchurch 1896
John Hamilton Pickthall Hodgson, b Christchurch 1913


Son No 1: Ronald Harker Joseph Alfred Richard Hodgson-Paumier: Died: 16.8.1917, (515147 Pte Ronald Harker Joseph Alfred Richard Hodgson-Paumier joined 3rd Btn early 1917. Killed in action 16.8.1917, near Hooge during 3rd Battle Ypres, buried in Perth (China Wall) Military Cemetery, Zillebeke, Belgium. Attended Bournemouth School.)

Son No 2: John Hamilton Hodgson Paumier: Death 1940 (source Commonwealth War Graves. Band corporal in Royal Marine Band, on HMS Glorious d aged 27, memorial Portsmouth Naval Memorial in Hants.  Panel 43, column 3.  First married Ivy Brewer in 1937, daughter of that marriage Ann Hodgson Paumier.



To return to Lillian's husband: 
Alfred Gardner Pickthall Hodgson (later Paumier)
Born 1870 Everton, Lancs, Parents: Alfred Richard Hodgson and Diana Peck Boadle
1915 changed his name, London Gazette 14/5/1915 from Alfred Gardner Pickthall Hodgson to Alfred Gardner Pickthall Hodgson Paumier.
Died: 25 1.1951 aged 80, Surrey Alfred GPH Paumier.

Actor:

1914; active in Broadway in The Story of The Rosary, see above picture.

1916: The Lifeguardsman, adventure film, silent, made in UK.

1916: Wanted: A Widow, short, comedy.


1920. The Amateur Gentleman. Directed by Maurice Elvey, who probably also wrote the scenario. Featuring:
1.      Langhorn Burton as Barnabas Barty
2.      Madge Stuart as Lady Cleone Meredith
3.      Cecil Humphreys (I) as Wilfred Chichester
4.      Herbert Synott as John Barty
5.      Pardoe Woodman as Ronald Barrymaine
6.      Alfred Paumier as Prince Regent
7.      Gerald McCarthy as Viscount Horatio Debenham
8.      Geoffrey Wilmer as Captain Slingsby
9.      Sydney Seaward as Sir Mortimer Carnaby
10.  E. Vivian Reynolds as Jasper Gaunt
11.  Dalton Somers as Natty Bell
12.  Teddy Arundell as Digby Smivvle
13.  Will Corrie as Captain Chumley
14.  Judd Green as Jerry the Bosun
15.  A.C. Fotheringham-Lysons as Peterby 


Alfred Paumier plays the boxer who inherits a fortune & poses as a nobleman. He has to save his father from unjust imprisonment & strive not to lose the love of aristocratic Lady Cleone Meredith when inevitably his true identity is revealed.


http://www.violetbooks.com/farnol-films.html (unfortunately this a/c has now been suspended)