Dr William Smith (1711–1787) was Dean of Chester and a Greek and Latin scholar.
Smith was born in Worcester in 1711, the son of the rector of St Nicholas' Church.
He became headmaster of Brentwood School, Essex, in 1748, before leaving in 1753 to become vicar of St George's, Liverpool.
[1] He resigned St George's in 1767, and Holy Trinity in 1780, but he was rector of Handley from 1766 to 1787, and of West Kirby from 1780 to 1787.
He is buried in Chester Cathedral with a monument by Thomas Banks.