page_title: Richard Joseph Smith
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Joseph Smith / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Richard Joseph Smith Plaque
context_page_description: Richard Joseph Smith was a member of both the New South Wales Legislative Council and the Queensland Legislative Council.
context_section_description: Smith was born at Leicester, England in 1819 to Richard Smith and arrived in New South Wales as a young boy around 1824.  By 1845 he had travelled to Brisbane and established the Kangaroo Point Boiling Down  Works, the Marie Boiling Down Works and a Sawmill.
caption: Memorial tablet erected to Smith's honour in S Paul's Church, Ipswich
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