Elsie Smith (8 September 1881 – 4 May 1968) was a New Zealand nurse, Anglican deaconess and missionary. She was born in Kingstone Lisle,

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, England, on 8 September 1881. She lived and worked in

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settlements for 33 years. In the 1955 Queen's Birthday Honours, Smith was appointed a

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, recognising her service as a nurse in the Maori Anglican Mission on the Whanganui River.

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