Painter and teacher, born in Rochford, Essex, who studied at Guildford School of Art and Goldsmiths’ College where he obtained his art teacher’s certificate first class. For 32 years Smoothey was head of art at the Grammar School in Guildford, Surrey, where he lived. He also pioneered adult classes for 30 years and examined and taught courses in many areas. He was the first British teacher to travel to Hawaii on a Fulbright Award, 1953–4. Won a design competition for the Italian partisan war memorial at Pastorello, near Parma, 1946. Smoothey was president of Guildford Art Society and a member of Midhurst Art Society and showed at NS. Had solo exhibitions at Guildford House Gallery from 1962, also at Universities of Surrey and Leicester, Cranleigh College, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and elsewhere.