Career
Smith had 14 children, including Adelaide Casely-Hayford, his most well known child. Smith was also the grandfather of Doctor McCormack Easmon. William Smith was born in Cape Coast in 1816 to William Smith Senior and a Fanti princess who was the daughter of a Chief.
William Smith (1795–1875) was from Yorkshire, England, and worked for the African Company.
Smith grew up at Cape Coast until his father was appointed a Judge for the Mixed Commission in Sierra Leone.