Background
Smith was born in Lindfield in the English county of Sussex, the eldest son of London merchant Francis Smith and Marie Josephine Villeneuve.
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Smith was born in Lindfield in the English county of Sussex, the eldest son of London merchant Francis Smith and Marie Josephine Villeneuve.
In 1832 Francis was apprenticed to the printer of the New York Albion.
Smith would acknowledge his mother"s ancestry from French naval admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve by adopting her surname in 1861. The Smith family emigrated to the Australian colony of Van Diemen"s Land (later called Tasmania) in 1826, settling in Campania near Richmond. Smith, however, returned to England to further his education, studying law at Middle Temple and arts at University College London.
He was admitted to the Bar on 27 May 1842.
He was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1856. He was Attorney General in William Champ"s first ministry from 1 November 1856 until 26 February 1857.
When William Weston"s ministry (1857) collapsed he proceeded to form his own with himself as Premier and Attorney General, he held office for three years until 1860 becoming the first Premier of Tasmania to hold office for more than one year. He represented the now-defunct electorate of Fingal.
He was also Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.
Smith was knighted in 1862.
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In 1851 he became a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council and soon after became Attorney-General.
