Quinton Stow Smith (7 April 1864 – 10 June 1963), was a South Australian businessman, philanthropist and longtime active lay member of the Baptist Church.
Thomas Quinton Stow (1801–1862), a friend of his father[1] who married the couple on 25 November 1845.
[1] In 1879 he started work as an office boy for schoolmate Frederick William Bullock (1851–1931), who had just taken over his late father's land agency business in York Chambers, Franklin Street, and stayed with him until 1888.
In December 1889 he and Davenport formed a partnership Davenport & Smith, stockbrokers, with offices in Alfred Chambers, Currie Street,[5] later Davenport, Smith, & Roberts with the addition of Smith's cousin Alfred Jabez Roberts (1863–1939), mayor of Glenelg 1899–1902, 1916–1917.
After his wife died (in 1947) he sold the family property to the SA Housing Trust (in 1953) and went to live at 15 Cross Road, Kingswood.