Black and white oval seated portrait of Alfred Smee. Pencil inscription on verso, 'A Smee FRS'. Printed inscription on verso, 'Grillet & Cie Photographes du Roi Chiatamone, 6, Naples'.. Alfred Smee (1818-1877) was a surgeon, and worked in that capacity for the Bank of England. He acquired a property at The Grange, Wallington, Surrey, where he gardened, and about which he wrote a book, My garden (1872).During the 1870's he was briefly a Council member of the RHS, and also a member of the RHS Scientific and Fruit & Vegetable Committees.. Alfred Smee (1818-1877) was a surgeon, and worked in that capacity for the Bank of England. He acquired a property at The Grange, Wallington, Surrey, where he gardened, and about which he wrote a book, My garden (1872).During the 1870's he was briefly a Council member of the RHS, and also a member of the RHS Scientific and Fruit & Vegetable Committees.