Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Smith KCB (15 December 1835 – 2 March 1921) was a Scottish police officer who was Commissioner of the City of London Police. [1]
Smith was born in Penpont, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, the son of Rev. George Smith of the Church of Scotland and Jane Hogarth. [2] He was educated at Edinburgh Academy. After serving as a constable in a Scottish county force, he went to London in 1879. [3] He was unanimously elected to the post on 28 July 1890, the first to hold the post after joining the same force as a Constable. [4] He had also been Acting Commissioner since the resignation of James Fraser.
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1896 and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1897. [2] He tendered his resignation as Commissioner early in December 1902 due to friction with the Police Committee over the administration of the force [5] and left office late that month. [6]
He died in Edinburgh in 1921. [7]