set to each side, the columns were originally supposed to be of cast iron. Death and legacy Smith married Margaret Grant, a daughter of George Grant of Auchterblair. Most of their eight children died at an early age but their fourth child, William, joined his father in business and also became city architect in Aberdeen. The couple also had a daughter, Margaret Grant Smith. Having suffered a lengthy, painful illness, Smith died in 1852 at the home he inherited from his wife's father. There is a plaque to commemorate him sited at the Kirk of St Nicholas in Union Street, Aberdeen. Gallery References Notes Citations Bibliography 1781 births 1852 deaths 19th-century Scottish architects British neoclassical architects Architects from Aberdeen