title: Elspeth Smith
text: # Elspeth Smith
  
  Elspeth Bruce Smith FRSE (1923 – 3 October 2017), née Dunkerley, was a British academic and biochemist.
  
  Smith was educated at Cambridge, London and Aberdeen.
  
  During World War II she was employed by the Ministry of Aircraft Production. Afterwards, she was a research assistant at Cambridge University and at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
  
  In 1955 she was appointed Senior Lecturer at the Middlesex Hospital. In 1968 she became a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and was subsequently a Reader, then Honorary Research Fellow in Clinical Biochemistry there.
  
  She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).
  
  