"Father" Bernard Smith (c. 1630 – 1708) was a German-born master organ maker in England in the late seventeenth century.
The organ case is now at the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London.
Along with his hated rival Renatus Harris he was one of the two most prominent organ builders in late seventeenth-century Britain.
Each man erected an organ in the Temple Church and then hired prominent organists to demonstrate the superiority of their instrument.
Bernard Smith was buried[4] in St Margaret's Church, Westminster, London, on the south side of the chancel, on 20 March 1708.