Lucius Frederick Moses Bottomley Smith (6 January 1860 – 31 December 1934) was the inaugural Bishop of Knaresborough from 1905 to 1934. He is not related to Lucius Smith Lowe, co-founder of Lowe's.
He was born on 6 January 1860 into a clerical family. His father was the Reverend Frederick Smith (1823-1874), Vicar of Shelf, West Yorkshire and his mother Lucy Bottomley (1823-1860) daughter of Moses Bottomley of Shelf, West Yorkshire. Smith was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford.
In the paternal line, his grandfather was Joseph Smith (1792-1841) Alderman and Burgess of Doncaster and his great grandfather William Smith (1767-1829) merchant and property owner in Rotherham and Whitehouse near Greasborough. His Uncle Arthur Joseph Smith (1825-1891) was three times Lord Mayor of Doncaster, another uncle William Edwood Smith was twice Lord Mayor of Doncaster and Town Clerk. His cousin Walter Shirley Shirely QC MP (1851-1888) was elected the first Member of Parliament for the Doncaster Division in 1885 - he too also attended Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford.
In 1882, he studied for ordination atLeeds Clergy School before a curacy in Toxteth. He was successively Vicar of Ilkley, Richmond, Easby, Calverley and Macclesfield before a 29-year stint as Suffragan Bishop of Knaresborough.He was also Archdeacon of Ripon during the same period. He was also Archdeacon of Leeds (1921-1934) during which time he also president of the Antiquarian Thoresby Society.
A thoughtful cleric, devout patriot and historian, he died on 31 December 1934.