Robert Knowlton Smith (28 December 1887 – 26 October 1973) was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia and became a barrister.
Smith studied at St. Francis Xavier University and the Dalhousie Law School where in 1911 he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree.[1]
He was mayor of Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1923, and served on that municipality's council for five years. In August 1925, he was designated a Crown Prosecutor for Cumberland County, but resigned that October to seek federal office.[1]
He was first elected to Parliament at the Cumberland riding in the 1925 general election, then re-elected there in 1926 and 1930.[citation needed]
On 16 January 1929, he was appointed King's Counsel through the Nova Scotia government.[1]
Smith died on 26 October 1973 and was interred at Parkview Cemetery in Waterloo, Ontario.[2][3]