Sir William Wright Smith (2 February 1875 Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire – 15 December 1956) was a Scottish botanist and horticulturalist.
He was born at Parkend farm near Lochmaben in Dumfriesshire, the son of James T. Smith, a farmer.
[4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1919, his proposers being Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, James Hartley Ashworth and Donald Cameron McIntosh.
[1] From 1907 until 1910, Smith went travelling in northern India with his nephew and ward, Roland Edgar Cooper FRSE, collecting samples in Sikkim, Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan.
Cooper later took over from Smith in his role of Head Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.