Academic Career
Smith remained at Balliol as a mathematics tutor following his graduation in 1849 and was soon promoted to Fellow status. In 1861 he was promoted to the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford. In 1873 he was made the beneficiary of a fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and gave up teaching at Balliol.
On account of his ability as a man of affairs, Smith was in demand for academic administrative and committee work: He was Keeper of the Oxford University Museum; a Mathematical Examiner for the University of London; a member of a Royal Commission to review scientific education practice; a member of the commission to reform University of Oxford governance; chairman of the committee of scientists overseeing the Meteorological Office; twice president of the London Mathematical Society; etc.
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