Charles Howard Smith (17 May 1888 – 23 July 1942) was a British diplomat.
Smith was educated at Winchester and Brasenose College, Oxford, before joining the British Foreign Office in 1912.Kaarsted, Tage; Great Britain and Denmark 1914-1920; Odense, 1979: 164 He remained in the diplomatic service throughout World War I and the inter-war period, during which he was private secretary to the then Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Cecil Harmsworth MP (later Lord Harmsworth) 1920–22.SMITH, Charles Howard, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014), accessed 19 October 2015 Smith was himself eventually appointed Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1933. In October 1939 he took up the position of Minister to Copenhagen,The London Gazette, 31 October 1939 but was forced to leave upon the German invasion of Denmark in April 1940. Following his departure from Copenhagen he became the first British Minister to Reykjavik.Kaarsted, 1979: 164 He died in his post in July 1942.The London Gazette, 11 May 1943
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