Vivian Hugh Smith, 1st Baron Bicester (9 December 1867 – 17 February 1956), was a British merchant banker.

[1] His brother Aubrey followed the different path of joining the Royal Navy at the age of eleven and later rose to be an admiral.

Smith served as the Chairman of Yule Catto & Company Ltd (present-day Synthomer), Governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation from 1914 to 1956, and a Director of Morgan Grenfell & Co.

On 29 June 1938, Smith was raised to the peerage as Baron Bicester, of Tusmore in the County of Oxford.

Together, they were the parents of seven children:[3] Lord Bicester died in February 1956, at the age of eighty-eight, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Randal.