Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

Known in library records as a solicitor as well as a writer, he is associated with the travel book Tent Life with English Gipsies in Norway. Project Gutenberg lists him as the author of that work, which helped preserve his name for modern readers.

Available biographical details are sparse, but genealogical records identify Hubert Smith as an English solicitor and town clerk of Bridgnorth, born in 1822 and later connected with Norway through his 1874 marriage in Sem, Vestfold. Those details fit the picture of a practical professional who also had the curiosity and energy to turn travel into storytelling.

What makes his writing memorable is its mix of observation and movement: camp life, landscape, and the everyday habits of the people around him all become part of the narrative. For listeners who enjoy older travel writing, his surviving work offers a small but vivid window into nineteenth-century journeys and attitudes.