Sir Philip Crampton Smyly (28 March 1866–1953) was a British judge and colonial administrator.
He was Attorney General of Sierra Leone when he was appointed Chief Justice of that protectorate in November 1901.
His photographs from his stay in Sierra Leone are kept as part of the Royal Commonwealth Society collection held in the Cambridge University Library.
[3] He was appointed Chief Justice of the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) on 14 September 1911.
[4] The Governor at the time of his appointment in the Gold Coast was Sir James Thorburn, but most of his career in the Gold Coast was under two Governors of unusual qualities, Sir Hugh Clifford (1912–1919) and Sir Gordon Guggisberg (1919–1927).