Lieutenant Colonel Sir Gerard Smith, KCMG (12 December 1839 – 28 October 1920), a member of the Smith and Carington family, was a business leader, politician, and Governor of Western Australia from 1895 to 1900.

Smith joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers as an ensign in 1857 and briefly saw service in Canada, retiring from the army in 1874.

He joined the family bank, Samuel Smith, Bros. & Co., and went on to become a business leader in Kingston-upon-Hull, being instrumental in the formation of the Hull and Barnsley Railway in 1880.

He succeeded his second cousin William Carington as a Liberal MP for Wycombe from 1883 to 1885,[1][2] and was a Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria in the same period.

[5] However, as his term as Governor was rapidly drawing to a close, he remained Grand Master for only one year.