Career
After training as a pharmacist at a dispensing chemist in Grantham and then at University College, London, Thomas Smith opened his own chemist"s shop in Hull in 1856. In 1858 he started selling cod-liver oil most of which came from Newfoundland although he obtained one large batch at a cheaper price from Norway: he sold these supplies to hospitals on a wholesale basis. Thomas Smith died later in 1896.
Smith, who never married, had no children.
He became President of the Hull Chamber of Commerce.
