The following was published in volume 1 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows First practised at Clifton, Bristol, and towards the end of his life at Harewood, Narboro Road, Leicester. He died in 1909. The following was published in volume 4 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Born about 1883 he was

Born in 1877 at Layfields, Rufford, Nottinghamshire, the second son of Henry Hardwick Smith, flour-miller of Langley Mill, and his wife Elizabeth Eaton. He was educated at Wycliffe College and at St John's College, Cambridge. He received his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying