Thomas Smellie (minister)

Thomas Smellie (pronounced "smiley")[1] ( – ) was a Presbyterian minister and educator in South Australia.

Smellie was sent out to South Australia by the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland to replace Rev.

Peter Mercer, minister of the Port Adelaide church on the north-west corner of Marryatt and Leadenhall streets, who had transferred to Victoria to become first acting principal of Ormond College of the University of Melbourne.

He resigned before the 1865 union which formed the Presbyterian Church of South Australia, but stayed on until replaced by Rev.

[10] Smellie married Louise Suzanne Wilhelmine Verdure (29 Jul 1832 – ) at Chalmers Church on 18 December 1866.