Samuel Pountney SmithJP (2 November 1812[1] – 5 November 1883) was an English architect who practised in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.[2]
Smith was a native of Munslow, where he was baptised on 17 December 1812,[3] in Corvedale, Shropshire, son of an innkeeper, Edward Smith and his wife Anne.[3] He learned the trades of builder and architect with his uncle John Smalman[4] at Quatford near Bridgnorth, and came to Shrewsbury in about 1840 after working in the latter's business.[4][5]
He was a JP for the borough of Shrewsbury and was for a time a Conservative borough councillor, serving as Mayor of Shrewsbury in 1873-74, until narrowly losing an election in 1876. However he was elected alderman from outside council in 1877 and served until he died, three days before the end of his six-year term of office.[1][5]
Smith died at The Limes, after three months' paralysis, in 1883 aged seventy-one, and was buried in the Shrewsbury General Cemetery in Longden Road.[1][13] He was architect of its church and ancillary buildings.[5]