Mexborough and Swinton Times February 24, 1928

Mr GB Smith, B.Sc., who is relinquishing his post on the staff of the Mexborough Secondary School to become senior science master at the Royd Hall secondary school, Huddersfield, after the Easter vacation, will be very much missed at the secondary school and elsewhere.

Mr. Smith was educated at the King Edward VI Grammar School, Stocksbridge, of which he is a native, and had the unusual honour of an appointment on the staff of the same school for four years before completing his training at the University of London, where he took his B.Sc. with first-class honours in chemistry.

During his stay at Mexborough he has done excellent pioneering work in the cultivation of music at the school and was chiefly responsible for the formation of an orchestra, a choir and subsequently a choral society. He has also for nearly five years acted as honorary choir master at the Denaby Parish Church, where he has greatly stimulated interest in Church music. He has organised a number of choral recitals, notably at the Christmas and Passion seasons, and. these were beginning to give the Denaby Church a special place in the sacred music of the district. He has also prepared the church choir for the annual Doncaster Deanery Choir’s Festival. He is himself a cultured singer, having a bass voice of excellent quality.