George Smith (1833–1919)

George Smith CIE FRGS LLD (28 April 1833 – 24 December 1919) was a 19th-century Scottish historian and geographer who spent his working life in India.

He was born in Leith on 28 April 1833 the son of Isabella Anderson, and her husband Adam Smith (1809–1837).

In 1855, he moved to Calcutta, in India, to act as the first Principal of the Doveton College, a boys' school in Madras.

[2] By the 1870s, Smith had returned to Scotland and was living at Scagrore House in Seafield, east of Leith.

In 1879 he became Vice President of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society George Smith died at home, 10 South Learmonth Gardens,[4] in the west of Edinburgh on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1919.