Richard Good Smethurst (born 17 January 1941) is an economist, who was provost of Worcester College, Oxford.
In 1964, Smethurst was appointed research fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
From 1976 until 1986 he was professorial fellow at Worcester and director of Oxford University Department for External Studies.
[2] Smethurst was once tutor to John Hood, subsequently vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford.
Smethurst is married to Sue Gillingham, an Oxford theologian and authority on the Psalms.