'Padre' George Smith (8 January 1845 – 26 November 1918), an army chaplain, was a defender of Rorke's Drift during the Zulu War of 1879, an action which saw the winning of eleven Victoria Crosses. He was born in Docking in Norfolk in 1845, the youngest of three sons of William Smith (1801–1877), a master shoe-maker who employed two men in his business, and Frances, née Peacock (1805–1876). In 1861 aged 16 he was lodging at an address in King's Lynn in Norfolk where he was working as a railway clerk. George Smith is also honoured at The Museum of Army Chaplaincy.