Benjamin Smith (priest)


Benjamin Frederick Smith was the Archdeacon of Maidstone from 1897 until 1900.
Smith was born in Camberwell; educated at Blackheath Proprietary School, King's College London and Trinity College Cambridge. After a curacy at Trinity Church, Tunbridge Wells he was Rector of Rusthall from 1850 to 1874; and then of Crayford from 1874 until his appointment as Archdeacon. A faithful servant to the Diocese of Canterbury, he was also at various times during his long ministry Rural Dean of Dartford, Diocesan Inspector of Schools and Chaplain to the Archbishop.
He died on 26 March 1900.