{{Short description|Canadian economist}}

'''David Chadwick Smith''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|FRSC}} (August 12, 1931 – May 22, 2000) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[economist]], and the sixteenth Principal of [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] from 1984 to 1994.

Smith was born in [[Ooty|Ootacamund]], [[British India]] to Canadian parents who were Baptist missionaries. The family moved back to the Simcoe area of Ontario when he was eight years old. He was educated at [[McMaster University]], [[Oxford University]], and [[Harvard University]] and then taught at [[University of California, Berkeley]] before coming to Queen's in 1961, joining the Department of Economics.<ref>https://www.queensu.ca/encyclopedia/s/smith-david-chadwick</ref>

In 1993, he was made a member of the [[Order of Canada]]. He was made a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Canada]] in 1976. == References == {{Reflist}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.queensu.ca/secretariat/History/people/smith.html|title=David Chadwick Smith|accessdate=December 25, 2005|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060527050150/http://www.queensu.ca/secretariat/History/people/smith.html|archivedate=May 27, 2006}}

{{s-start}} {{s-aca}} {{succession box | before=[[Ronald Lampman Watts]] | title=[[Principal (university)|Principal]] of [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] | years=1984–1994 | after=[[William C. Leggett]] }} {{s-end}} {{Principals and Chancellors of Queen's University}}

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