Villiers Shallet Charnock Smith (30 September 1821 at Plymouth, Devon – 1 February 1871 at Rowley, Oxfordshire) was an English cleric and academic.
The second son of Charles Hervey Smith of Plymouth, he matriculated at New College, Oxford in 1843.
[1] His two middle names appear in some records with different spellings: the Bedfordshire County Council archives, which record his ownership of Aspley House in Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire, in the two years before his death have his names as "Villiers Shallot Chernocke Smith".
[3] A notice in The Times in 1869, in which he is cited as an executor in a will, mentions him as "the Reverend Villiers Shallet Chernocke Smith, of Crawley Vicarage, near Woburn, in the county of Bedford".
[4] A right-handed batsman who was mainly associated with Oxford University and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Smith made 14 known appearances in first-class matches.