Sir William Robert Smith FRSE DL JP (1850–1932) was a 19th/20th century British forensic scientist, public health expert and also a local politician.
[1] He studied Medicine at Edinburgh and Aberdeen University graduating MB ChB in 1876.
His proposers were William Pirrie, James Matthews Duncan, Thomas Wright and John Hutton Balfour.
He presided over two international Public Health Congresses: London in 1894 and Paris in 1913.
For twenty years he represented the ward of Farringdon Without in the Court of the Common Council for the City of London.