The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Smith, Hon. Robert Burdett
Smith, Hon. Robert Burdett, C.M.G., M.L.C., was born in Sydney in 1842; was admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1863, and practises in Sydney. He was at one time president of the Australian Patriotic Association, and was secretary to the committee of the Captain Cook Memorial Fund. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly for the Hastings and Macleay electorates from 1870 to 1889, when he was nominated to the Legislative Council. Mr. Smith was a Commissioner for New South Wales at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in 1886, and was Executive Commissioner for that colony at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition of 1888. In 1890 he was created C.M.G.