Albert George Dew-Smith (27 October 1848 – 17 March 1903)[1] was a British physiologist, lens maker, bibliophile, and amateur photographer.
He co-founded the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, and conducted early research with physiologist Michael Foster.
He was an early student of Michael Foster, and conducted research on electrical stimulation of mollusc and frog hearts in the 1870s, making three working visits to the Naples Zoological Station.
[5] By around 1876-78 Dew-Smith had left scientific research, although he maintained an interest in producing laboratory equipment as well as contact with scientists at Cambridge.
In 1884 he was elected a member of the Photographic Society of Great Britain and showed prints at the 1885 exhibition.
He owned many first editions and hand written manuscripts by authors such as William Blake, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.