Pierce Galliard Smith

Pierce Galliard Smith (27 October 1826 – 18 November 1908) was a Scottish cleric of the Church of England, and the rector at St John the Baptist Church, Reid in Canberra, Australia.

Born in Lochvale near Langholm, Smith was the son of Eaglesfield Smith and his wife Judith Ann Irving, daughter of Sir Paulus Aemilius Irving.

[2] He held a post as curate and chaplain in Northumberland before he arrived in New South Wales with his family in 1855.

[1] Smith moved to Canberra and lived at a cottage at Acton until 1873 when he and his family moved into the new Glebe House (which was demolished in the mid 20th century).

Smith's second daughter, Mary, married George De Salis of Cuppacumbalong Homestead in 1878.