Thomas Smith

Sir Thomas Smith, 1st Baronet, (23 March 1833 – 1 October 1909) was a British surgeon.

Life Smith was born in Blackheath, the sixth son of Benjamin Smith, a London goldsmith, by his wife Susannah, daughter of Apsley Pellatt. He was educated at Tonbridge School between 1844 and 1850. In 1851 he became an apprentice to Sir James Paget and in August 1854 he became House Surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He subsequently worked at St Bartholomew's Hospital and from 1858 to 1861 Smith was Assistant Surgeon at the Great Northern Hospital.

He married on 27 August 1862 Ann Eliza, the second daughter of Frederick Parbury, an Australian by birth. She died on 9 February 1879, shortly after the birth of their ninth child. Their eldest son was the surgeon Rudolph Smith.

Thomas Smith died at his home on Oxford Street in London on 1 October 1909.