Landscape and architectural painter, born in Perth, Scotland. He was known to artist friends as Dummy Smith, because as a child an attack of scarlet fever robbed him of speech and hearing. After attended a school for the deaf and dumb in Dundee he went to the College of Art there, eventually moving to Edinburgh to study at Royal Institution. Travelled to France before World War I, but did not go abroad again, although he painted widely in Scotland. Showed at RSA, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, RA, RSW and Walker Gallery in Liverpool. He was a member of the Edinburgh Group and his work was included in the show of that name at City Art Centre, Edinburgh, and tour, 1983. Work held by public collections including Glasgow, Paisley, Perth and Greenock.