John Smith (dentist)

John Smith FRSE PRCSEd LLD (1825–1910) was a Scottish dentist, philanthropist and pioneering educator.

He conducted postgraduate studies in London and Paris, making drawings of gunshot and sabre wounds.

Recognising the need for improved training, he founded, together with Francis Brodie Imlach, Peter Orphoot and Robert Nasmyth, the Edinburgh Dental Dispensary in 1860.

[6] In 1871 he was appointed Surgeon Dentist to Queen Victoria,[2] and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, upon the nomination of John Hutton Balfour.

In his final years he lived at 11 Wemyss Place, a fine Georgian house on the Moray Estate in Edinburgh's New Town.