Background
He was born in Northamptonshire to Thomas Smith and Frances Flesher.
He was born in Northamptonshire to Thomas Smith and Frances Flesher.
He migrated to Tasmania in 1827 and from there to Sydney, acquiring land on the Molonglo Plain. He ran an importing and mercantile firm in the early 1830s and later became a director of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney. Smith died at Brighton in England in 1886.
From 1856 to 1858 he was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.