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| birth_date = 1871

| death_date = 1937

| occupation = academic<br />anatomist

| elected_ESL =

| elected_ASL =

1926.11.23

| elected_APS =

| elected_LAS =

| membership = ordinary fellow

| clubs =

}}

== Notes ==

RAI Council 1911 Member<br />RAI Council 1912-13 Member<br />RAI Council 1913 Member<br />RAI Council 1914 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1922 Member<br />RAI Council 1929 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1930-31 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1932-33 Member<br />RAI Council 1933-34 Member

=== House Notes ===

=== Notes From Elsewhere ===

Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, FRS[1] FRCP (15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937) was an Australian-British anatomist, Egyptologist and a proponent of the hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory. He believed in the idea that cultural innovations occur only once and that they spread geographically. Based on this, he traced the origins of many cultural and traditional practices across the world, including the New World, to ideas that he believed came from Egypt and in some instances from Asia. An expert on brain anatomy, he was the first to study Egyptian mummies using radiological techniques. He took an interest in extinct humanoids and was embroiled in controversy over the authenticity of the Piltdown Man. <br />.....<br />His father had migrated to New South Wales from London. He had attended a workingman's college under John Ruskin and later became teacher and headmaster in Grafton, New South Wales. His older brother (Stephen H. Smith) was Director of Education in New South Wales; his younger brother (Stewart Arthur Smith) was Acting Professor of Anatomy at the University of Sydney.[14]<br />He married Kathleen Macredie in 1902 just before moving to Cairo. During his time in London, he lived in Hampstead, Gower Street, and at Regent's Park. During his London years, he became a friend of Dr. W. H. R. Rivers.<br />Smith's youngest son, Stephen Smith, died in an accident in 1936. Smith spent his final year in a nursing home in London, where he died.<br />