Francis Smith (30 June 1847 – 25 November 1912) was a Sierra Leonean Puisne Judge in the Gold Coast.
He was the second Sierra Leonean to qualify as a barrister after he passed the bar at Middle Temple on 26 January 1871.
[3] After completing his secondary education, he entered Middle Temple on 10 January 1868 and was called to the bar in 1871.
[4] Smith rose rapidly through the judicial ranks and was appointed Chief Magistrate of The Gambia in 1879.
Smith was the maternal grandfather of Frances Wright through her mother, Eva Wright (née Smith), and his great-grandson and namesake is Emile Francis Short, the first justice on the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice.