Francis Jagoe SmithCMG (9 September 1873 – 1 April 1969) was the Postmaster General of Ceylon and Director of Telegraphs, serving in the position from 1913 to 1923.
Smith traveled to Ceylon in 1896, to take up a position as a cadet in the Ceylon Civil Service.[4][5] In 1905 he was appointed as the second assistant Colonial Secretary.[3] In 1907 Smith, in conjunction with Hermann Albert Loos, compiled a publication containing all the enacted legislation applying to Ceylon, A Revised Edition of the Legislative Enactments of Ceylon.
In 1913 he was appointed as the Postmaster General of Ceylon and Director of Telegraphs, succeeding Arthur Sampson Pagden, CMG. During his tenure, May 1920, the first post and telegraph museum was established in the telegraph school at Central Telegraph Office, with the exhibits contained in a large wardrobe, including morse circuits and telecommunication instruments and equipment collected from post offices around the island.
Loos, Hermann Albert; Smith, Francis Jagoe (1907). Cottle, H. C. (ed.). A Revised Edition of the Legislative Enactments of Ceylon. Colombo, Ceylon: Government Printer. ISBN9781279218747.
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^Foster, Joseph (1893). Oxford Men, 1880-1892, with a Record of Their Schools, Honours and Degrees. J. Parker. pp. 561–562.
^Merchant Taylors' School (1923). Hart, E. P. (ed.). Merchant Taylors' School Register, 1851-1920. Merchant Taylors Company. p. 200.
^ abWright, Arnold, ed. (1999). Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources. Asian Educational Services. p. 106. ISBN9788120613355.