Background
Smeaton was educated at the Abbey Park Institution, Saint Andrew"s, a boarding school run by his father, at which not less than 80 young men were boarded and educated.
Smeaton was educated at the Abbey Park Institution, Saint Andrew"s, a boarding school run by his father, at which not less than 80 young men were boarded and educated.
He then attended the University of Street Andrews, where he graduated with an Master of Arts
Degree. Arriving in India in 1867, Smeaton held minor appointments in the North-Western Provinces. On 5 September 1873 Smeaton married Annette Louisa Lushington, daughter of Sir Henry Lushington (1826-1898), 4th Baronet and Elizabeth Cheape. He was made Companion of the Order of the Star of India in 1895 and retired in 1902.
Smeaton published an edition of the North-Western Provinces Revenue Acting.
The Currency of India. And The Karens of Burma.
He died in April 1910 aged 61, three months after retiring from Parliament.
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In 1879 he went to Burma where he served as Chief Secretary in 1887, officiated as Chief Commissioner in 1892 and 1896 and was a Member of the Governor-General"s Legislative Council of Burma in 1898 and 1901.