X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Lionel Percy Smythe


Lionel Percy Smythe

Subsequently they moved, in 1882, to the Château d'Honvault on a hill between Wimereux and Boulogne.

Smythe and his wife Alice made frequent trips to France and eventually settled in Normandy in 1879, in an old Napoleonic fortress on the coast at Wimereux - until the building was inundated by the sea.

He was also partly educated in France and spent holidays there at Wimereux in Normandy with his stepfather William Morrison Wyllie and family.



see also