His father was a grocer and Smith worked in the same profession in his early life.
He first played for Gravesend Cricket Club in 1839 and is thought to have been involved in the operation of the Bat and Ball Ground with Tom Adams.
He played for the side in 1842 and 1844 in the same fixture before emigrating to South Australia at some point during the early 1850s.
He worked as a government official at Port Augusta but had returned to live in Gravesend by 1856 when he played three times for Kent.
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