Abstract
Ernest Lester Smith, ELS or Lester to his associates, but known as Ernest to his mother and father, divided his life into three separate activities: science, theosophy and horticulture. As a scientist he will be remembered for his work on the kinetics of soap making, the wartime production of penicillin and for the isolation from liver of vitamin B 12 , then known as the anti-pernicious anaemia factor. He received many honours for his scientific work, including the Gold Medal in Therapeutics of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1954, but he sincerely felt his greatest honour was the Subba Row Medal, ‘the most prestigious award within The Theosophical Society’ presented for his theosophical publication '‘ Intelligence came first ' (B). He derived great personal pleasure from horticulture and so especially enjoyed the award of the Lindley Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society for a display of double auriculas.
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