Isaac Smith (Royal Navy officer)
- Isaac Smith (Royal Navy officer)
Rear Admiral Isaac Smith (?–1831)[ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51145#s6 British History Online, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), 'Mersea, East - Methwold', pages. 295-98] ] was a Royal Navy admiral.]Smith was a cousin of Captain James Cook's wife Elizabeth and as a young man was master's mate aboard the "Endeavour" on Cook's voyage to Tahiti, New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. The tradition in Cook's family, retold with pride, was that at Botany Bay on 28 April 1770 Smith was the first to go ashore, Cook telling him "Now then, Isaac, you shall go first", or similar, [gutenberg Australia|no=ebooks02/0200471|name=A Short History of Australia|author=Ernest Scott|html=yes] though this is not recorded in Cook's journal. [gutenberg|no=8106|name=Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World]
At his death in 1831, Smith lived at Merton Abbey[LondonGazette|issue=18891|date=10 January 1832|startpage=57] in Merton, Surrey (now south-west London).] References
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