Joseph Lee Kirby-Smith (April 16, 1882 – November 5, 1939)[1] was an American college football player and dermatologist.
[2] Kirby-Smith was born on April 16, 1882, in Sewanee, Tennessee, the son of American Civil War general Edmund Kirby-Smith and his wife Cassie Selden.
Kirby-Smith served in the Public Health Service during the First World War.
[2][7][8] In 1926, he was invited to lecture to the London Medical Association on the subject of tropical medicine.
Kirby-Smith died in his Jacksonville home, on November 5, 1939, following a brief illness.