Marianne Smith MBE (born Mary Anne Caughey; 10 March 1851 – 1 September 1938), and known as Marianne Caughey Preston from 1932, was a notable New Zealand businesswoman, community worker and philanthropist. She was born in Portaferry, County Down, Ireland, in 1851. Marianne Smith established Smith & Caughey's in 1880. Her husband joined her when there was sufficient business to support the two of them. In the 1935 King's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for philanthropic services.
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